P R OV I D E N C E S E R V I C E CO R P O R AT I O N 5 5 24 E A S T F O U R T H S T R E E T T U C S O N , A Z 8 5 711 P H O N E : 5 2 0 -747- 6 6 0 0 W E B: W W W. P R O V C O R P.C O M This is a Greener annual reporT. Providence Service Corporation is committed to reducing its impact on the environment. By producing our report this way, we lessened the impact on the environment in the following ways: 3,051 lbs. of wood were saved 4,455 gallons of water were saved 925 lbs. of emissions were sequestered 270 lbs. of solid waste were not generated 4,000,000 BTUs of energy not consumed P R OV I D E N C E S E R V I C E CO R P O R AT I O N 2 0 0 9 A N N UA L R E P O R T P R O V I D E N C E S E R V I C E C O R P O R A T I O N 2 0 0 9 A N N U A L R E P O R T Cert no. SCS-COC-000648 M O M E N T U M The Providence Service Corporation is dedicated to providing and managing government sponsored social and transportation management services within a highly fragmented industry. Benefiting from the growing trend for government privatization, Providence provides human services and non-emergency transportation (NET) management services directly to children, adolescents, young adults and families who are eligible for government assistance pursuant to federal mandate or legal status. Providence is different from many of its competitors in that it provides its social services in the client’s own home or in community based settings versus institutional care and provides its NET management services through local transportation providers rather than owning its own fleet of vehicles. This reduces the government’s costs for such services while providing high quality care to Providence’s clients. 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 2 % R : 3 G A 5 y r C 04 05 06 071 081 092 Client Growth in Thousands $250 200 150 100 50 0 04 05 06 07 08 09 Total Long Term Debt in Millions $1,000 3 % R : 5 G A 5 y r C 800 600 400 200 0 NET Services Social Services 04 05 06 07 08 09 Total Revenue in Millions $60 50 40 30 20 10 0 6 % R : 3 G A 5 y r C * 04 05 06 07 083 09 Operating Income in Millions 1 excludes over 6 million eligible NET clients 3 Operating loss of $149.3 million includes $169.9 million asset impairment charge 2 excludes over 7.7 million eligible NET clients 2009 Stock Performance Providence Service Corporation stock price return compared to The Russell 2000 and the NASDAQ Health Index, in percentages. PRSC Russell 2000 NASDAQ Health Index 1000% 800% 600% 400% 200% 0% -200% Jan 09 Feb 09 Mar 09 Apr 09 May 09 Jun 09 July 09 Aug 09 Sep 09 Oct 09 Nov 09 Dec 09 Corpora te In forma tion Board of Directors Terence J. Cryan 2, 3 President and Chief Executive Officer Medical Acoustics, LLC Hunter Hurst III 1, 2, 3 Retired Director National Center for Juvenile Justice Fletcher J. McCusker Chairman, Chief Executive Officer Company Headquarters The Providence Service Corporation Annual Meeting May 20, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. Lodge on the Desert 5524 East Fourth Street 306 North Alvernon Way Tucson, AZ 85711 Tucson, AZ 85711 Phone: 520-747-6600/800-747-6950 Fax: 520-747-6605 Web: www.provcorp.com Corporate Officers Fletcher J. McCusker Chairman, Chief Executive Officer Investor Relations The investing public, securities analysts and stockholders seeking information about the Company should visit the Investor Information section of our corporate website at www.provcorp.com, or contact Investor Relations at either the Company’s corporate headquarters or via e-mail at irinfo@provcorp.com. Common Stock The Company’s Common Stock is traded on The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC’s Global Select Market under the symbol “PRSC.” Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm KPMG LLP Legal Counsel Blank Rome LLP 405 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10174 Transfer Agent Computershare Investor Services, LLC P.O. Box 43078 Providence, RI 02940-3078 Phone: 404-588-3654/800-568-3476 The Providence Service Corporation Michael N. Deitch Chief Financial Officer Kristi L. Meints 1, 2, 3 Retired Chief Financial Officer Mary J. Shea Executive Vice President, Chicago Systems Group Program Services Craig A. Norris Chief Operating Officer Fred D. Furman Executive Vice President, General Counsel Herman Schwarz Chief Executive Officer, LogistiCare Leamon A. Crooms III Chief Strategy Officer Craig A. Norris Chief Operating Officer The Providence Service Corporation Warren S. Rustand (Lead Director) Managing Partner SC Capital Partners, LLC Richard Singleton 1, 2, 3 Retired Superintendent Boys School for the Dept. of Juvenile Justice, State of Florida 1 Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee 2 Audit Committee 3 Compensation Committee Safe Harbor This annual report contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as “believe,” “demonstrate,” “expect,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “should” and “likely” and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. In addition, statements that are not historical should also be considered forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on those forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date the statement was made. Such forward-looking statements are based on current expectations that involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause actual events to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to the global credit crisis, capital market conditions, and other risks detailed in Providence’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including this Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009. Providence is under no obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update any of the information in this document if any forward-looking statement later turns out to be inaccurate whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. m o c . s r o n n o c - n a r r u c . w w w / . c n I , s r o n n o C & n a r r u C y b n g i s e D t r o p e R l a u n n A Providence Service Corporation 2009 Annual Report By partnering with our state and local government agencies, we have collectively been able to do some of our best work during some of the most difficult economic times. d r i v i n g i m p r o v e m e n t i n p r o g r a m o u t c o m e s While 2009 was a record year in terms of revenue, earnings and stock performance, it was also a year in which we were able to achieve important improvement in program outcomes. We have collectively done some of our best work during some of the most difficult economic times in memory. To be able to create such a focus on our clients, to enhance our outreach and produce our best measurable results is a remarkable achievement. Over the years we have partnered with The Center for Evaluation and Program Improvement at Vanderbilt University in the development of a continuous quality improvement program to demonstrate our positive outcomes. Use of the Contextualized Feedback Intervention & Training (CFIT™) system, as it is called, has led to youth getting better faster, alerted clinicians to previously unidentified symptoms and challenges and has made clinicians more responsive to the treatment process. Youth whose clinicians utilized the CFIT Feedback Reports also had the most improvement in their symptoms and functioning over the course of treatment. On the strength of these findings, an application is pending with the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices, a service of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to list CFIT as an evidence based practice. Providence has committed to integrating CFIT into certain programs over the course of the next year to further our focus on our clients and continue the momentum we have seen in our program outcomes. c o n t i n u e d m o m e n t u m a t L o g i s t i C a r e In addition to the positive outcomes we continue to report on the social services side, our NET business has continued to distinguish itself from its competition emphasizing the needs of its clients and its clients’ customers through a culture of aggressive quality assurance. Results continue to be outstanding and include: improved transportation access; reduction of fraud and waste; reduced billing issues; improved risk management; enhanced trip efficiency, safety and quality; and lower trip costs. These positive outcomes have been accompanied by increased utilization and satisfaction and, with enhanced membership, has resulted in decreased rates to a number of our clients. With recent increases in Medicaid enrollment and further gains anticipated as a result of the recent passage of health care reform, we believe our NET business is well positioned to continue its momentum. f u tu r e p o te n ti a l o f h e a l t h c a r e r e fo r m The recent passage of the health care reform legislation has the potential to create additional momentum, for both our social service and NET businesses. The bill makes a number of sweeping changes to Medicaid and insurance for America’s poor and is estimated to bring an additional 15 million into the Medicaid system. The plan also enhances the funding and commitment to home and community based services, a mission Providence has embraced since our inception in 1997. Providence Service Corporation 2009 Annual Report Dear Stockholders, Looking back at 2009, it was one of the most as part of the solution for our nation’s behavioral remarkable years in the Company’s history. We health system and our record financial results and experienced records in most every benchmark strong rebound in our stock in 2009 support this. that we monitor: revenues, profits, cash flow, referrals, contracts, client census and most importantly, outcomes for our client base. Re t u r n To Po s i t i ve M o m e n t u m This was in stark contrast to the second half of 2008 Re c o rd Re s u l t s For 2009, revenue increased 16% to over $800 million, with our social services segment growing 10% to $341 million and our NET services segment growing 21% to $460 million. Operating income was $53.7 million and when our state payers were being dramatically net income was $21.1 million, or $1.60 per diluted affected by the recession, causing us to miss our share, both of which are records. Benefitting our forecasted expectations, withdraw guidance and warn of financial covenant challenges. While results was a non-recurring tax benefit and savings resulting from the Company’s 2009 salary and 2008’s difficulties led to significant selling related benefits freeze, and reduced stock pressure in our stock, a dramatic decline in our compensation. Our NET division, which just a year market capitalization and the initiation of a proxy ago we considered selling, had an outstanding contest, we believed then that the issues being 2009 with strong increases in Medicaid enrollment experienced by our payers would be short term and eight new contracts generating an anticipated given the congressional mandates for our $85 million a year. Our business turnaround in programs. This turned out to be the case. First, 2009 enabled us to generate significant cash flow under the President’s leadership, the stimulus during the year, over $61 million, much of which package which passed in February 2009 helped was used to reduce our debt. In total we repaid to stabilize the Medicaid system. In addition, the federal court helped secure our clients’ rights to $32.6 million in senior debt in 2009 including voluntary prepayments, and we prepaid an receive care in the least restrictive environment additional $5 million on our senior debt in and also stopped indiscriminate rate cutting January 2010. As a result, our covenant issues of in California not once, but twice with their a year ago have been resolved and our balance injunctions. We believe we continue to be seen sheet is much improved. Providence Service Corporation 2009 Annual Report We C o u l d n’t Have D o n e I t W i t h o u t O u r Pe o p l e We do not have the words to express our gratitude to our thousands of and cross-sell the diverse services we offer, and take advantage of the new funding opportunities coming out of Congress. In early December we employees who demonstrated unbelievable announced the hiring of a Chief Strategy Officer tenacity in assuring our clients received quality responsible for guiding national strategic care while supporting us in our cost savings development efforts and working with local efforts. To my management colleagues who leadership and staff to identify and maximize always remained upbeat and on task I want to strategies to grow and diversify our business. offer my personal thanks for your amazing Initiatives could include serving new populations attitude, work ethic and friendship during this such as the elderly and returning veterans and time. The Company had no extraordinary turnover among its key leadership, and limited their families. Our improved financial picture should also facilitate our strategy of making turnover in the field as every man and woman strategic acquisitions in 2010 to further diversify working for us rallied to insure our mission of the Company into these federally supported passionate, community based care for our clients areas. While we anticipate that these positive remained in focus. As a result, we renewed trends will benefit our business in 2010, 2009 will substantially all our contracts from last year and be hard to top as our expense structure returns continue to see great results from our outcome to more normal levels. studies. To the stockholders that hung in there with us and praised the Company for its client focus and solid turnaround we are eternally grateful. The Company was war tested in 2009 and rose to the occasion. M ov i n g Fo r w a rd Looking ahead, historic passage of the health care reform bill by the I believe we are a better company for having gone through the challenges of the last year together and as a result I can look back at 2009 and marvel at our ability not just to survive but to thrive. While we are hopeful that the cascading events that affected us in 2008 will not be repeated, it has left us even more committed to Congress in March 2010 should make sweeping our mission. Today’s environment is not unlike changes to Medicaid and enhance the funding 1997 when I started the Company. Our optimism and commitment to community based care, a about our long term prospects today is as great mission Providence has embraced since its as it was then. Thanks go out to everyone for your inception in 1997. The new legislation is estimated continuing contributions to our success. to bring an additional 15 million individuals into the Medicaid system and mandates that states Sincerely, prioritize home based services. These two factors should make our home and community based programs even more appreciated and more topical in the years to come. Despite state budgets remaining challenged, our long term payer relationships have flourished. We intend to draw on our strengths to pursue Fletcher McCusker initiatives to further our efforts to grow programs Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Providence Service Corporation 2009 Annual Report “Because of LogistiCare, costs have declined dramatically, access has expanded in remote rural areas and other key quality indicators have improved.” Georgia Department of Community Health Our Services Assertive Community Treatment is a team and community based approach to providing treatment and support for adults with serious and persistent behavioral health issues. Parent Education is designed to empower parents and provide them with the resources needed to safely and effectively raise their children. Autism Services are provided through strengths based, behavior analytic education and treatment, based upon the best available scientific evidence. Case Management integrates all client care and ensures that all involved providers are working together towards common goals. Community Based Surveillance allows court-involved youths to remain safely in their homes and communities while receiving planned rehabilitative and educational services. Correctional Services provide a wide range of support services for probationers, including restorative justice, counseling, and community service work programs. Drug Court Treatment is an approach to substance abuse that is a marriage of therapy and judicial involvement. Home Based Services allow the clinician to view the family in a natural environment and to direct treatment from the standpoint of the family. In-home Tutoring provides private, focused tutoring and mentoring. Intensive Wraparound Programs collaborate with behavioral health, education, juvenile justice, and community resources to promote stable environments and decrease conflicts between youth, families, and society. Network Management coordinates and manages the delivery of government sponsored social services by multiple providers. Non-emergency Transportation Service Management helps to ensure that individuals have access to reliable, safe transportation to health care services. Prevention Services promote youth opportunity development by fostering and facilitating partnerships among youth, parents, school faculty and staff, and other community members. School Based Services address children’s behavioral problems in the school setting which can help improve the chance for successful attainment of treatment goals. Substance Abuse Treatment assists individuals in identifying and understanding their alcohol and other drug problems, and motivating change. Therapeutic Foster Care is designed to teach troubled children how to be successful in a family and community in order to facilitate the child’s return to a more permanent placement. Therapeutic Mentoring utilizes positive adult role models to increase youths’ positive social behavior, decrease their involvement with the legal system and to help youth become more interested, connected and responsible members of their communities. Violence Prevention includes group counseling and experiential activities covering such topics as: defining anger; triggers and warnings; controlling anger; assertive communication; and role plays. Virtual Residential Programs provide families, schools and communities with a community based alternative to unnecessary out-of-home placements and facilitate the successful reunification of youth with their families following residential, psychiatric or foster home placements. Workforce Development services include vocational evaluation, job placement, skills training, and support employment. For more information on our Services and Outcomes we invite you to visit our website: www.provcorp.com F O R M 10-K UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 10-K (Mark One) È ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009 OR ‘ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the transition period from to Commission File No. 001-34221 The Providence Service Corporation (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Delaware (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) 86-0845127 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) 5524 East Fourth Street, Tucson, Arizona (Address of principal executive offices) 85711 (Zip code) Registrant’s telephone number, including area code (520) 747-6600 Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: Title of each Class Common Stock, $0.001 par value per share Preferred Stock Purchase Rights Name of each exchange on which registered The NASDAQ Global Select Market The NASDAQ Global Select Market Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. ‘ Yes È No Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. ‘ Yes È No Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. È Yes ‘ No Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Website, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). ‘ Yes ‘ No Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (§ 229.405 of this chapter) is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in the definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. ‘ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See definition of “large accelerated filer”, “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one): ‘ Large accelerated filer È Accelerated filer ‘ Non-accelerated filer (Do not check if a smaller reporting company) ‘ Smaller reporting company Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). ‘ Yes È No The aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity of the registrant held by non-affiliates based on the closing price for such common equity as reported on The NASDAQ Global Select Market on the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter (June 30, 2009) was $133.0 million. As of March 10, 2010, there were outstanding 12,905,525 shares (excluding treasury shares of 619,768) of the registrant’s Common Stock, $.001 par value per share, which is the only outstanding capital stock of the registrant. DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE Portions of the registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement for its 2010 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which Definitive Proxy Statement will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission not later than 120 days after the registrant’s fiscal year-ended December 31, 2009, are incorporated by reference into Part III of this Form 10-K; provided, however, that the Compensation Committee Report, the Audit Committee Report and any other information in such proxy statement that is not required to be included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, shall not be deemed to be incorporated herein by reference or filed as a part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I Item 1. Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Item 1A. Risk Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Item 2. Legal Proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Item 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Removed and Reserved) Item 4. PART II Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Item 6. Selected Financial Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations . . . . . . . Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Financial Statements and Supplementary Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Item 8. Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure . . . . . . Item 9A. Controls and Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Item 9B. Other Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PART III Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Item 11. Executive Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Principal Accounting Fees and Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Item 14. PART IV Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SIGNATURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EXHIBIT INDEX Page No. 1 11 22 22 23 23 24 26 29 66 68 120 120 121 123 123 123 124 124 125 130 [THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK] Item 1. Business. Development of our business PART I We provide and manage government sponsored social services and non-emergency transportation services. With respect to our social services, our counselors, social workers and behavioral health professionals work with clients who are eligible for government assistance due to income level, emotional/educational disabilities or court order. The state and local government agencies that fund the social services we provide are required by law to provide counseling, case management, foster care and other support services to eligible individuals and families. We do not own or operate any hospitals, residential treatment centers or group homes. Instead, we provide social services primarily in the client’s home or community, reducing the cost to the government of such services while affording the client a better quality of life. With respect to our non-emergency transportation services, we manage and arrange for client transportation to health care related facilities and services for state or regional Medicaid agencies, health maintenance organizations, or HMO’s, and commercial insurers. Our social services revenue is derived from our provider contracts with state and local government agencies and government intermediaries, HMO’s, commercial insurers, and our management contracts with not-for-profit social services organizations. The government entities that pay for our social services include welfare, child welfare and justice departments, public schools and state Medicaid programs. Under a majority of our social services provider contracts, we are paid an hourly fee. Under some of our social services provider contracts, however, we receive a set monthly amount or we are paid amounts equal to the costs we incur to provide agreed upon services. Where we contract to manage the operations of not-for-profit social services organizations, we receive management fees based on a percentage of revenues of the managed entity or a predetermined fee. Where we provide management services for non-emergency transportation, we contract with either state or regional Medicaid agencies, local governments, or private managed care companies. Most of our contracts for non-emergency transportation management services are capitated (i.e. our compensation is based on a per member per month payment for each eligible member). For a majority of our contracts we do not direct bill our payers for non-emergency transportation services as our revenue is based on covered lives. Our special needs school transportation contracts are with local governments and are paid on a per trip basis or per bus per day basis. When we formed our business as a Delaware corporation in 1996, most government social services were delivered directly by governments in institutional settings such as psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers or group homes. We recognized that social services could be delivered more economically and effectively in a home or community based setting. Additionally, we anticipated that payers would increasingly seek to privatize the provision of these social services in order to reduce costs and provide quality social services to an increasing number of recipients. Based on this outlook, we developed a system for delivering these services that is less costly and, we believe, more effective than the traditional social services delivery system. During our first year of operations, we acquired Parents and Children Together, Inc. (now known as Providence of Arizona, Inc.) and Family Preservation Services, Inc., which provided the foundation upon which our business was built. From 2002 to 2008 we completed the following significant acquisitions which we believe broadened our home based and foster care platform, expanded our reach into many new states, enhanced our workforce development services and presented opportunities for us to offer home and community based and foster care services in Canada, and expanded our continuum of services to include the management of non-emergency transportation services: • Camelot Care Corporation • Cypress Management Services, Inc. 2002 2003 1 2004 2005 Dockside Services, Inc. • Children’s Behavioral Health, Inc. Rio Grande Management Company, LLC • Maple Star Nevada & Maple Services, LLC Pottsville Behavioral Counseling Group, Inc. (now known as Providence Community Services, Inc.) • Management agreements with Care Development of Maine & FCP, Inc. Community services division of Aspen Education Group, Inc. including Choices Group, Inc., Aspen MSO (now known as Providence Community Services, LLC) and College Community Services. 2006 A to Z In-Home Tutoring, LLC • • • AlphaCare Resources, Inc. & Transitional Family Services, Inc. Drawbridges Counseling Services, LLC & Oasis Comprehensive Foster Care LLC 2007 Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services business of Raystown Development Services, Inc. • • • • • • Family Based Strategies, Inc. • WCG International Consultants Ltd. • • Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services business of Family & Children’s Services, Inc. Charter LCI Corporation, including its subsidiaries. • W. D. Management, L.L.C. • • • • Innovative Employment Solutions Division of Ross Education, LLC Correctional Services Business of Maximus, Inc. 2008 Camelot Community Care, Inc. (substantially all of the assets in Illinois and Indiana) AmericanWork, Inc. Since our inception, we have grown from 1,333 clients served in a single state to approximately 82,000 clients served either directly or through our managed entities. Additionally, 7.7 million individuals were eligible to receive services under our non-emergency transportation services contracts as of December 31, 2009. We operate from 427 locations in 43 states, the District of Columbia and British Columbia as of December 31, 2009. Historically, we have relied exclusively on decentralized field offices to drive growth initiatives and independently manage sales and marketing activities. This approach has served us well by supporting steady and consistent organic growth. As our industry continues to rapidly change we see an opportunity to coordinate our efforts to pursue potential acquisitive as well as potential organic growth in our businesses. In 2010, we appointed a chief strategy officer, or CSO, who will be responsible for these coordinated growth efforts. The CSO will identify new markets and new opportunities, develop and execute business and marketing plans and assist the field offices in initiating strategies designed to align local operations with developing payer funding initiatives. 2 Financial information about our segments Since December 2007, we began operating in two segments: Social Services and Non-Emergency Transportation Services, or NET Services. Financial information about segments and geographic areas, including revenues, net income and long-lived assets of each segment and from domestic and foreign operations for the Company as a whole is included in Note 11 of our consolidated financial statements presented elsewhere in this report and is incorporated herein by reference. See Item 1A Risk Factors under the heading “Our international operations expose us to various risks, any number of which could harm our business” for a discussion of risks related to our foreign operations. Description of our business Social Services Services offered. We provide home and community based services, foster care and provider management services, directly and through entities we manage. The following describes such services: Home and community based counseling • • • • Home based and intensive home based counseling. Our home based counselors are trained professionals or para-professionals providing counseling services in the client’s own home. These services average five hours per client per week and can include individual, group or family sessions. Topics are prescriptive to each client and can include family dynamics, peer relationships, anger management, substance abuse prevention, conflict resolution, parent effectiveness training and misdemeanant private probation supervision. We also provide intensive home based counseling, which consists of up to 20 or more hours per client per week. Our intensive home based counselors are masters or Ph.D. level professional therapists or counselors. Intensive home based counseling is designed for clients struggling to cope with everyday situations. Our counselors are qualified to assist with marital and family issues, depression, drug or alcohol abuse, domestic violence, hyperactivity, criminal or anti-social behavior, sexual misbehavior, school expulsion or chronic truancy and other disruptive behaviors. In the absence of this type of counseling, many of these clients would be considered for 24-hour institutional care or incarceration. Substance abuse treatment services. Our substance abuse treatment counselors provide services in the office, home and counseling centers designed especially for clients with drug or alcohol abuse problems. Our counselors use peer contracts, treatment group process and a commitment to sobriety as treatment methods. Our professional counseling, peer counseling and group and family sessions are designed to introduce clients dependent upon drugs or alcohol to a sober lifestyle. School support services. Our professional counselors are assigned to and stationed in public schools to assist in dealing with problematic and at-risk students. Our counselors provide support services such as teacher training, individual and group counseling, logical consequence training, anger management training, gang awareness and drug and alcohol abuse prevention techniques. In addition, we provide in-home educational tutoring in numerous markets where we contract with individual school districts to assist students who need assistance in learning. Correctional services. We provide misdemeanant private probation supervision services, including monitoring and supervision of those sentenced to probation, rehabilitative services, and collection and disbursement of court-ordered fines, fees and restitution. • Workforce development. We assist individuals to achieve their greatest potential to obtain and retain meaningful employment through services that include vocational evaluation, job placement, skills training, and employment support. 3 Foster care • • Foster care. We recruit and train foster parents and license family foster homes to provide 24-hour care to children who have been removed from their homes due to physical or emotional abuse, abandonment, or the lack of appropriate living situations. We place children individually in a licensed home. Each child is provided 24-hour care and supervision by trained foster parents. Our professional staff and counselors match and supervise the child and foster family. We also provide tutoring and other services to the child and foster family. Therapeutic foster care. We provide therapeutic foster care services. This is a 24-hour care service designed for children exhibiting serious emotional problems who may otherwise require institutional treatment. We recruit, license and train professional foster parents to care for foster children for up to a year of therapeutic intervention. Social, psychological and psychiatric services are provided on a prescriptive basis to each child and therapeutic foster care family by a team of licensed, professional staff. Not-for-profit managed services • • Administrative support, information technology and accounting and payroll services. we provide and manage the back office and administrative functions such as accounting, cash management, billing and collections, human resources and quality management. We assist in the development of policies and procedures and supervise the day to day operations. In some of our contracts we also provide the information technology support for hardware, networking and software. We also provide payroll management services for our managed entities along with managing the recruiting and retention of staff. In all cases, we report directly to the not-for-profit organization’s board of directors which may elect to engage us to provide some or all of these services. In most cases Intake, assessment and referral services. We contract on behalf of our managed entities with governments to receive and handle telephone inquiries regarding need and eligibility for government sponsored social services, to arrange for face-to-face interviews and to conduct benefit eligibility reviews. If indicated from the telephone inquiry and/or interviews with the client, we perform an evaluation of need, which may include a psychiatric assessment, psycho-social assessment, a social history and other diagnostic tools. Once eligibility is determined, the client is referred to an appropriate social services provider. • Monitoring services. Monitoring services include face-to-face and telephone interactions in which we provide guidance and assistance to clients. This typically includes a strength assessment, a referral to appropriate resources, a home visit and a limited amount of consultation. This service is designed for clients that are not seriously impaired but need assistance in accessing government benefits and services and learning the applicable benefit system. • In providing case management services, we supervise all aspects of an eligible Case management. client’s case and assure that the client receives the appropriate care, treatment and resources. As a case manager we are a client’s advocate, arranging for services and following up to ensure that the client receives the necessary and appropriate care and services, and further, that the client complies with the prescribed intervention plan. We maintain the client’s records required by the government unit sponsoring the care. In providing case management, our client contact may be in the office, at home, on the telephone or any combination thereof. Revenue and payers. Substantially all of our revenue related to our Social Services operating segment is derived from contracts with state or local government agencies, government intermediaries or the not-for-profit social services organizations we manage. A majority of our contracts are negotiated fee-for-service arrangements with payers. Home and community based services are generally payable by the hour depending on the type and intensity of the service. Foster care 4 services are generally payable pursuant to a fixed monthly fee. Approximately 67.8%, 70.4% and 70.6% of our Social Services operating segment revenue for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009 was related to fee-for-service arrangements. A significant number of our fee-for-service contracts allow the payer to terminate the contract immediately for cause (such as for our failure to meet our contract obligations). Additionally, these contracts permit the payer to terminate the contract at any time prior to its stated expiration date without cause, at will and without penalty to the payer, either upon the expiration of a short notice period, typically 30 days, and/or immediately, in the event federal or state appropriations supporting the programs serviced by the contract are reduced or eliminated. We generate a significant portion of our revenue from a few payers. Under our contract with the State of Virginia’s Department of Medical Assistance Services, we derived approximately 10.1% and 12.6% of our social services revenue for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively. Revenues from our cost based service contracts are generally recorded based on a combination of direct costs, indirect overhead allocations, and stated contractual margins on those incurred costs. These revenues are compared to annual contract budget limits and, depending on reporting requirements, allowances may be recorded for certain contingencies such as projected costs not incurred, excess cost per service over the allowable contract rate and/or insufficient encounters. This policy results in recognizing revenue from these contracts based on allowable costs incurred. The annual contract amount is based on projected costs to provide services under the contracts with adjustments for changes in the total contract amount. Annually, we submit projected costs for the coming year which assist the contracting payers in establishing the annual contract amount to be paid for services provided under the contracts. After the contracting payers’ year end, we submit cost reports which are used by the contracting payers to determine the amount, if any, by which funds paid to us for services provided under the contracts were greater than the allowable costs to provide these services. Completion of this review process may range from one month to several years from the date we submit the cost report. In cases where funds paid to us exceed the allowable costs to provide services under contract, we may be required to pay back the excess funds. Our cost reports are routinely audited by our contracted payers on an annual basis. We periodically review our provisional billing rates and allocation of costs and provide for estimated adjustments from the contracting payers. We believe that adequate provisions have been made in our consolidated financial statements for any adjustments that might result from the outcome of any cost report audits. Differences between the amounts provided and the settlement amounts are recorded in our consolidated statement of operations in the year of settlement. Cost based service contracts represented approximately 17.8%, 16.4% and 18.5% of our Social Services operating segment revenue for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009. We provide services under one annual block purchase contract in Arizona with The Community Partnership of Southern Arizona. We are required to provide or arrange for the behavioral health services to eligible populations of beneficiaries as defined in the contract. We must provide a complete range of behavioral health clinical, case management, therapeutic and administrative services. We are obliged to provide services only to those clients with a demonstrated medical necessity. There is no contractual limit to the number of eligible beneficiaries that may be assigned to us, or a limit to the level of services that must be provided to these beneficiaries if the services are deemed to be medically necessary. Therefore, we are at-risk if the costs of providing necessary services exceed the associated reimbursement. The terms of the contract typically are reviewed prospectively and amended as necessary to ensure adequate funding of our service offerings under the contract; however, no assurances can be made that such funding will adequately cover the costs of services previously provided. The annual block purchase contract represented 6.7% of our Social Services operating segment revenue for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009. Due to the nature of our business and the requirement or desire by certain payers to contract with not-for-profit social services organizations, we sometimes enter into management contracts with not-for-profit organizations for the purpose of developing strategic relationships or providing administrative, program and management services. These organizations contract directly or indirectly with state government agencies to supply a variety of community 5 based mental health and foster care services to children and adults. Typically these organizations are separately incorporated and organized with their own board of directors. Our management fees under these contracts are either based upon a percentage of the managed entities’ revenues or a predetermined fee. Management fees earned pursuant to our management contracts with these organizations represented approximately 7.5%, 6.5% and 4.2% of our Social Services operating segment revenue for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009. Seasonality. Our quarterly operating results and operating cash flows normally fluctuate as a result of seasonal variations in our Social Services operating segment, principally due to lower client demand for our home and community based services during the holiday and summer seasons. As we have grown our home and community based services business, our exposure to seasonal variations has grown and will continue to grow, particularly with respect to our school based services, educational services and tutoring services. We experience lower home and community based services revenue when school is not in session. Our expenses, however, do not vary significantly with these changes and, as a result, such expenses may not fluctuate significantly on a quarterly basis. As a result, our Social Services operating segment experiences lower operating margins during the holiday and summer seasons. We expect quarterly fluctuations in operating results and operating cash flows to continue as a result of the uneven seasonal demand for our home and community based services. Moreover, as we enter new markets, we could be subject to additional seasonal variations along with any competitive response to our entry by other social services providers. Competition. The social services industry is a highly fragmented industry. We compete for clients with a variety of organizations that offer similar services. Most of our competition consists of local social services organizations that compete with us for local contracts, such as United Way supported agencies and faith-based agencies such as Catholic Social Services, Jewish Family and Children’s Services and the Salvation Army. Other competitors include local, not-for-profit organizations and community based organizations. Historically, these types of organizations have been favored in our industry as incumbent providers of services to government entities. On a national level, there are very few organizations that compete for local, county and state contracts to provide the types of services we offer. We also compete with larger companies, such as Res-Care, Inc., which provides support services, training and educational programs predominantly to Medicaid eligible beneficiaries. National Mentor, Inc. is the country’s largest provider of foster care services and competes with us in certain markets for foster care services. Many institutional providers offer some type of community based care including such organizations as Cornell Companies, Inc., Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. and The Devereaux Foundation. While we believe that we compete on the basis of price and quality, many of our competitors have greater financial, technical, political and marketing resources, name recognition, and a larger number of clients and payers than we do. In addition, some of these organizations offer more services than we do. We have experienced, and expect to continue to experience, competition from new entrants into our markets. Increased competition may result in pricing pressures, loss of or failure to gain market share or loss of clients or payers, any of which could harm our business. Sales and marketing. Substantially all of our marketing is performed at the local and regional level. Through our local and regional managers, we have successfully developed and maintained extensive relationships with various payers. These relationships allow us to develop leads on new business, cross-sell our other services to existing payers and negotiate payer contracts. A significant portion of our business is procured in this manner. We also seek to market our services to payers in geographical areas contiguous to existing markets and in which we believe our reputation as a low cost quality service provider will enhance our ability to compete for and win business. From time to time we respond to requests for proposals, or RFPs. Additionally, we subscribe to a service that keeps us informed of and tracks on a national basis RFPs for privatization of social services. We selectively choose the RFPs to which we respond based upon whether our reputation enhances our ability to compete or if the RFP presents a unique opportunity to develop a new service offering. NET Services Services offered. As a result of our acquisition of Charter LCI Corporation, including its subsidiaries, collectively referred to as LogistiCare, we are the preferred provider of non-emergency transportation management 6 servicing clients under approximately 65 contracts in 39 states. We provide responsive and innovative solutions for a client’s transportation needs through centralized call processing, development and management of transportation networks and through the use of proprietary technologies. Our current payers include state Medicaid programs, local government agencies, hospital systems and HMO’s providing Medicare, Medicaid and commercial products. We provide services to a wide variety of people with varying needs. Our clients are Medicaid recipients, members of the disability community, and senior citizens. Non-emergency transportation services are provided to individuals with limited mobility, people with limited means of transportation, and people with disabilities that prevent them from using conventional methods of transportation. The majority of our programs provide Medicaid non-emergency transportation services to eligible beneficiaries. Utilization rates and vehicle choice differ depending on the individual’s condition, the location of the individual relative to the final destination, and other available transportation systems. We also provide services to special needs students who are physically fragile, or mentally ill children who cannot commute to school via traditional mainstream transportation and/or need to be taken out of school for therapy. As a transportation logistics manager, we match transportation services with client needs. We utilize a proprietary information technology platform and operational processes to manage the transportation services that are outsourced to a network of local third party transportation providers. We typically do not provide direct transportation to end users. Rather, to fulfill requests under our contracts, we subcontract with local transportation providers, such as van, cab and ambulance companies. We receive transportation requests from clients or their representatives and arrange for the least costly and most effective transportation. Transportation requests are received at one of 11 regional call centers and appropriate local transportation providers are assigned. These decisions are aided by our proprietary logistics software. After we assign an appropriate transportation provider to our client we carefully monitor the transportation service provided to ensure that the client transport was completed before we pay the transportation vendor. We do not normally pay for services if the client does not show up for transport or if the transport is not completed. A majority of the requests for transportation are standing orders, mostly for patients who require frequent, recurring services such as dialysis treatment. Other transportation requests are required to be scheduled with 48 to 72 hour advance notice, with a small number of requests scheduled on the same day. We subcontract with larger transportation companies as well as a number of diverse, small, local companies in order to provide superior coverage in both urban and rural areas. In each region that we serve, we actively manage a network of local transportation providers, screening and credentialing providers, providing orientations, and monitoring performance on an ongoing basis through field audits and other reviews. Each of our state operations uses multiple transportation providers in our network, with an average provider fleet size of less than 10 vehicles. To ensure compliance and safety quality standards for all third party transportation providers, we perform a credentialing process on all transportation providers who must meet minimum standards set by us and our payers. These standards include: (i) successful completion of criminal and driving record checks, drug testing and all required training; (ii) ability to receive trip reservations electronically; (iii) provider owned or leased vehicles that are equipped with a two-way communication system and safety equipment; and (iv) insurance coverage that complies with federal and/or state statutory requirements. We contract with third party transportation providers for trips on a per completed trip basis. Our subcontracts do not contain volume guarantees and can be cancelled with or without cause given 45 days notice. Revenue and payers. We contract primarily with state and local government entities, HMO’s and commercial insurers. Approximately 89% of our non-emergency transportation services revenue is generated under capitated contracts where we assume the responsibility of meeting the transportation needs of a specific geographic population. These contracts are generally structured with per member per month rates and have renegotiation or price increase triggers. Typical payer contracts cover three years with a two-year renewal option and range in size from approximately $1 million to $70 million annually. Approximately 6% of our non-emergency transportation services revenue is derived from fee-for-service and fixed cost contracts. Our special needs school transportation contracts are with local governments and are paid on a per trip basis or per bus per day basis. 7 We generate a significant portion of our revenue from a few payers. Under our contract with the State of Virginia’s Department of Medical Assistance Services we derived approximately 18% and 15% of our non-emergency transportation services revenue for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively. Our next four largest payers comprised approximately 35% and 31% of our non-emergency transportation services revenue for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively. Our contracted per member per month fee is predicated on actual historical transportation data for the subject geographic region provided by our payers, actuarial analysis performed in-house as well as by third party actuarial firms and actuarial analyses provided by our payers. Typically our government contracts are only cancellable for performance after notice and a cure period that ranges from 180 days to 365 days in length. Our contract pricing is regularly revisited and may be reset based on actual experience under the contract with adjustments for membership fluctuations and such inflation factors as cost of labor, fuel, insurance and utilization increases and decreases stemming from program re-designs. Seasonality. The quarterly operating results and operating cash flows of our NET Services operating segment normally fluctuate as a result of seasonal variations in the business, principally due to lower client demand for our non-emergency transportation services during the holiday and winter seasons. Due to the fixed revenue stream and variable expense base structure of our NET Services operating segment, expenses vary with these changes and, as a result, such expenses fluctuate on a quarterly basis. We expect quarterly fluctuations in operating results and operating cash flows to continue as a result of the seasonal demand for our non-emergency transportation services. As we enter new markets, we could be subject to additional seasonal variations along with any competitive response to our entry by other transportation providers. Competition. We compete with a variety of organizations that provide similar non-emergency transportation services to Medicaid eligible beneficiaries in local markets such as American Medical Response, Coordinated Transportation Solutions, Inc., First Transit, Inc., Medical Transportation Management Inc., MV Transportation, Inc., and Southeast Trans. as well as a host of local/regional transportation providers. Our competitors largely manage smaller-scale contract opportunities that encompass smaller geographic areas due to their lack of the statewide program management experience required to win a statewide competitive bid process. Historically, we have been successful in competitively bidding our non-emergency transportation management services for statewide or very large Medicaid population programs, as well as specialized non-emergency transportation benefits often offered to populations covered by managed care organizations. We compete based on our technical expertise and experience, which is delivered in a high service, competitive price environment although we are not necessarily the lowest priced management service provider. We have experienced, and expect to continue to experience, competition from new entrants into our markets that may be able to provide services at a lower cost. Regardless of how well we perform under our contracts (based on service or cost), we face competitive rebid situations from time to time. Increased competition could result in pricing pressures, loss of or failure to gain market share or loss of payers, any of which could harm our business. Sales and marketing. With respect to our non-emergency transportation services sales and marketing strategy, we focus on providing information to key legislators and agency officials. We pursue contracts through various methods including engaging lobbyists to assist in tracking legislation and funding that may impact our non-emergency transportation programs, and monitoring state websites for opportunities. In addition, we generate new business leads through trade shows and conferences, referrals, the Internet and direct marketing. The sales cycle usually takes between 6 to 24 months and there are various decision makers who provide input into the buy/no buy decision. By providing valuable information to key legislators and agency officials and creating a strong presence in the regions we serve, we are able to solidify the chance of renewal when contract terms expire. Additional payers are targeted within existing states in order to leverage pre-existing provider networks, technology, office and human resources investments. Furthermore, key commercial accounts are targeted which we define as accounts that are growing and located in multiple geographic areas. In many of the states where we have regional contracts, we seek to expand to include additional regions in these states and in contiguous states. All decisions about which RFPs to consider are centralized and selectively targeted based on our goals and service capabilities. Medicaid non-emergency transportation contracts with state agencies and larger Medicaid HMO’s represent the largest source of our non-emergency transportation revenue. 8 Employees As of December 31, 2009, our operations were conducted with over 7,000 clinical, client service representatives and administrative personnel. The operations of the entities we manage were conducted with over 3,000 clinical and administrative personnel. We have a collective bargaining agreement with the Service Employees International Union, Local 760 which covers approximately 150 part time employees in Connecticut under our special needs school transportation contract. We believe that our employee relations are good because we offer competitive compensation, including stock- based compensation, training, education assistance and career advancement opportunities. By offering competitive compensation and benefit packages to our employees, we believe we are able to consistently deliver high quality service, recruit qualified candidates and increase employee confidence, satisfaction and retention. Regulatory environment As a provider of social services, we are subject to numerous federal, state and local laws and regulations. These laws and regulations significantly affect the way in which we operate various aspects of our business. We must also comply with state and local licensing requirements and requirements for participation in Medicaid, federal block grant requirements, requirements of various state Children’s Health Insurance Programs, or CHIP, and contractual requirements imposed upon us by the state and local agencies with which we contract for such health care and social services. CHIP is a federal program providing benefits administered by states that submit plans for health benefits for children whose parents meet certain financial needs tests. Failure to follow the rules and requirements of these programs can significantly affect our ability to be paid for the services we provide. In addition, our revenue is largely derived from contracts that are directly or indirectly paid or funded by government agencies, including Medicaid. A significant decline in expenditures, shift of expenditures or funding could cause payers to reduce their expenditures under those contracts or not renew such contracts, either of which could have a negative impact on our future operating results. Surveys and audits Our programs are subject to periodic surveys by government authorities and/or their contractors to ensure compliance with various requirements. Regulators conducting periodic surveys often provide reports containing statements of deficiencies for alleged failures to comply with various regulatory requirements. In most cases, if a deficiency finding is made by a reviewing agency, we will work with the reviewing agency to agree upon the steps to be taken to bring our program into compliance with applicable regulatory requirements. In some cases, however, an agency may take a number of adverse actions against a program, including: • • • • • the imposition of fines or penalties; temporary suspension of admission of new clients to our program’s service; in extreme circumstances, decertification from participation in Medicaid or other programs; revocation of our license; or contract termination. From time to time, we receive and respond to survey reports containing statements of deficiencies. While we believe that our programs are in material compliance with Medicaid and other program certification requirements and state licensure requirements, failure to comply with these requirements could have a material adverse impact on our business and our ability to enter into contracts with other agencies to provide services. Billing/claims reviews and audits Agencies and other payers periodically conduct pre-payment or post-payment medical reviews or other audits of our claims. In order to conduct these reviews, payers request documentation from us and then review that documentation to determine compliance with applicable rules and regulations, including the eligibility of clients to receive benefits, the appropriateness of the care provided to those clients, and the documentation of that care. 9 For-profit ownership Certain of the agencies for which we provide services restrict our ability to contract directly as a for-profit organization. Instead, these agencies contract directly with a not-for-profit organization and in certain cases we negotiate to provide administrative and management services to the not-for-profit providers. The extent to which other agencies impose such requirements may affect our ability to continue to provide the full range of services that we provide or limit the organizations with which we can contract directly to provide services. Professional licensure and other requirements Many of our employees are subject to federal and state laws and regulations governing the ethics and practice of their professions. In addition, professionals who are eligible to participate in Medicaid as individual providers must not have been excluded from participation in government programs at any time. Our ability to provide services depends upon the ability of our personnel to meet individual licensure and other requirements. Federal and state anti-kickback laws and safe harbor provisions The federal anti-kickback law applicable to Medicaid and other federal health care programs makes it a felony to knowingly and willfully offer, pay, solicit or receive any form of remuneration in exchange for referring, recommending, arranging, purchasing, leasing or ordering items or services covered by such programs. The prohibitions apply regardless of whether the remuneration is provided directly or indirectly, whether or not in cash, and applies to both the person giving and the person receiving such remuneration. Interpretations of the anti-kickback law have been very broad and under current law, courts and federal regulatory authorities have stated that this law is violated if even one purpose (as opposed to the sole or primary purpose) of the arrangement is to induce referrals. This act is subject to numerous statutory and regulatory “safe harbors.” The safe harbor regulations, however, do not cover all lawful relationships between healthcare providers and referral sources. Failure of an arrangement to satisfy all of the requirements of a particular safe harbor does not mean that the arrangement is unlawful. However, it may mean that such an arrangement will be subject to scrutiny by the regulatory authorities. Violations of the anti-kickback law may be punishable by civil or criminal fines, imprisonment, and exclusion from government health care programs. Many states, including some where we do business, have adopted similar anti-kickback laws that have a potentially broad application as well. The Stark Law and state physician self-referral laws Section 1877 of the Social Security Act, or the Stark Law, prohibits physicians from ordering “designated health services” for Medicaid patients from entities or facilities in which such physicians hold a financial interest. This law is subject to a number of statutory or regulatory exceptions. Unlike a failure to meet a “safe harbor,” a relationship that falls within the scope of the Stark Law and fails to meet an exception would violate the law. Certain services that we provide may be identified as “designated health services” for purposes of the self- referral laws. We cannot assure you that future regulatory changes will not result in other services we provide becoming subject to the Stark Law’s ownership, investment or compensation prohibitions in the future. Many states, including some states where we do business, have adopted similar prohibitions against payments that are intended to induce referrals of clients. Moreover, many states where we operate have laws similar to the Stark Law prohibiting physician self-referrals. 10 We contract with a significant number of social services providers and practitioners, including therapists, physicians and psychiatrists, and arrange for these individuals or entities to provide services to our clients. While we believe that these contracts are in compliance with the anti-kickback and Stark Law, no assurance can be made that such contracts will not be considered in violation of the anti-kickback law or fall within an exception to the Stark Law. We cannot assure you that these laws will ultimately be interpreted in a manner consistent with our practices. False claims acts Federal criminal and civil false claims provisions, which provide that knowingly submitting claims for items or services that were not provided as represented may result in the imposition of multiple damages, administrative civil and monetary penalties, criminal fines and imprisonment. Many states, including some where we do business, have adopted laws and regulations similar to the federal law. Health information practices Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA, the United States Department of Health and Human Services, or DHHS, issued rules to define and implement standards for the electronic transactions and code sets for the submission of transactions such as claims, and privacy and security of individual health information in whatever manner it is maintained. In February 2006, DHHS published its Final Rule on Enforcement of the HIPAA Administrative Simplification provisions, including the transaction standards, the security standards and the privacy rule. This enforcement rule addresses, among other issues, DHHS’s policies for determining violations and calculating civil monetary penalties, how DHHS will address the statutory limitations on the imposition of civil monetary penalties, and various procedural issues. The rule extends enforcement provisions currently applicable to the health care privacy regulations to other HIPAA standards, including security, transactions and code sets. We have taken steps to ensure compliance with HIPAA and we are monitoring compliance on an ongoing basis. Additional information Our website is www.provcorp.com. We make available, free of charge at this website, our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. The information on the website listed above, is not and should not be considered part of this annual report on Form 10-K and is not incorporated by reference in this document. In addition, we will provide, at no cost, paper or electronic copies of our Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K and amendments to those reports filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Requests for such filings should be directed to Kate Blute, Director of Investor and Public Relations, telephone number: (520) 747-6600. Item 1A. Risk Factors. The following risks should be read in conjunction with other information contained, or incorporated by reference, in this report, including the “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” section and our consolidated financial statements and related notes. If any of the following risks actually occurs, our business, financial condition and operating results could be adversely affected. 11 The current domestic economic downturn could cause a severe disruption in our operations. Our business has been negatively impacted by the current domestic economic downturn. If this downturn is prolonged or worsens, there could be several severely negative implications to our business that may exacerbate many of the risk factors we identified below including, but not limited to, the following: • Liquidity: • The domestic economic downturn and the associated credit crisis could continue or worsen and reduce liquidity and this could have a negative impact on financial institutions and the country’s financial system, which could, in turn, have a negative impact on our business. • We may not be able to borrow additional funds under our existing credit facilities and may not be able to expand our existing facility if participating lenders become insolvent or their liquidity is limited or impaired or if we fail to meet covenant levels going forward. In addition, we may not be able to renew our existing credit facility at the conclusion of its current term or renew it on terms that are favorable to us. • Demand: • The current recession has resulted in severe job losses, which could cause an increase in demand for our services; however, depending on the severity of the recession’s impact on our payers (particularly our state government payers), sufficient funds may not be allocated to compensate us for the services we provide at the current margins we enjoy or we may be required to provide more services to a growing population of beneficiaries without a corresponding increase in fees for these services. • Prices: • Certain markets have experienced and may continue to experience deflation, which would negatively impact our average fees and revenue. Our indebtedness may harm our financial condition and results of operations. As of December 31, 2009, our total consolidated long-term debt was $204.2 million. Our level of indebtedness could have important consequences to us and you, including: • • • • • it could adversely affect our ability to satisfy our obligations; an increased portion of our cash flows from operations may have to be dedicated to interest and principal payments and may not be available for operations, working capital, capital expenditures, expansion, acquisitions or general corporate or other purposes; it may impair our ability to obtain additional financing in the future; it may limit our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our business and industry; and it may make us more vulnerable to downturns in our business, our industry or the economy in general. Our operations may not generate sufficient cash to enable us to service our debt. If we were to fail to make any required payment under the agreements governing our indebtedness or fail to comply with the financial and operating covenants contained in these agreements, we would be in default. In the event we are not in compliance with the financial and operating covenants, it is uncertain whether the lenders will grant waivers for our non-compliance. Our lenders would have the ability to require that we immediately pay all outstanding indebtedness. If the lenders were to require immediate payment, we might not have sufficient assets to satisfy our obligations under our credit facility, our 6.5% convertible senior subordinated notes due 2014, or our subordinated notes, or our other indebtedness. In such event, we could be forced to seek protection under bankruptcy laws, which could have a material adverse effect on our existing contracts and our ability to procure new contracts as well as our ability to recruit and/or retain employees. Accordingly, a default could have a significant adverse effect on the market value and marketability of our common stock. 12 Changes in budgetary priorities of the government entities that fund the services we provide could result in our loss of contracts or a decrease in amounts payable to us under our contracts. Our revenue is largely derived from contracts that are directly or indirectly paid or funded by government agencies. All of these contracts are subject to legislative appropriations and state budget approval. Consequently, a significant decline in government expenditures, shift of expenditures or funding away from programs that call for the types of services that we provide or change in government contracting or funding policies could cause payers to terminate their contracts with us or reduce their expenditures under those contracts, either of which could have a negative impact on our future operating results. The availability for funding under our contracts with state governments is dependent in part upon federal funding to states. Changes in Medicaid methodology may further reduce the availability of federal funds to states in which we provide services. Among the alternative Medicaid funding approaches that states have explored are provider assessments as tools for leveraging increased Medicaid federal matching funds. Provider assessment plans generate additional federal matching funds to the states for Medicaid reimbursement purposes, and implementation of a provider assessment plan requires approval by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in order to qualify for federal matching funds. These plans usually take the form of a bed tax or a quality assessment fee, which were required to be imposed uniformly across classes of providers within the state, except that such taxes only applied to Medicaid health plans. However, the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, which was signed into law on February 8, 2006, or Deficit Reduction Act, requires states that desire to impose provider taxes to impose taxes on all managed care organizations, not just Medicaid managed care organizations. This uniformity requirement as it relates to taxing all managed care organizations may make states more reluctant to use provider assessments as a vehicle for raising matching funds and, thus, reduce the amount of funding that the states receive and have available. Moreover, under the Deficit Reduction Act, states may be allowed to reduce the benefits provided to certain Medicaid enrollees, which could affect the services that states contract for with us. We cannot make any assurances that these Medicaid changes will not negatively affect the funding under our contracts. Currently, many of the states in which we operate are facing budgetary shortfalls or changes in budgetary priorities. In addition, in some states eligibility requirements for social services clients have been tightened to stabilize the number of eligible clients, which reduces the size of our potential market in those states. While many of these states are dealing with budgetary concerns by shifting costs from institutional care to home and community based care such as we provide, there is no assurance that this trend will continue. We derive a significant amount of our revenues from a few payers, which puts us at risk. We provide, or manage the provision of, government sponsored social services and non-emergency transportation services to individuals and families who are eligible for government assistance pursuant to federal mandate with respect to government sponsored social services and members of the disability community, or senior citizens with respect to non-emergency transportation services under various contracts with state and local governmental entities. We generate a significant amount of our revenues from a few payers under a small number of contracts. For example, in 2009 we generated approximately 47.6% of our total revenue from ten payers. Additionally, in our NET Services operating segment the aggregate revenue from our top five payers for the year ended December 31, 2008 and 2009 represented approximately 53% and 47%, respectively, of our NET Services operating segment revenue for such period. The loss of, reduction in amounts generated by, or changes in methods or regulations governing payments for our services under these contracts could materially reduce our revenue. 13 Our contract with The Community Partnership of Southern Arizona, referred to as CPSA, an Arizona not-for-profit organization, requires us to provide a sufficient level of encounters to support the year-to-date payments received under the contract and provide necessary services that may exceed the associated reimbursement. Our agreement with CPSA specifies that we are to provide or arrange for behavioral health services to certain eligible populations of beneficiaries as defined in the contract. We must provide a full range of behavioral health clinical, case management, therapeutic and administrative services. We are obliged to provide services only to those clients with a demonstrated medical necessity. Our annual funding allocation amount is subject to increase when our encounters exceed the contract amount; however, such increases in the annual funding allocation amount are subject to government appropriation and may not be approved. There is no contractual limit to the number of eligible beneficiaries that may be assigned to us, or a specified limit to the level of services that may be provided to these beneficiaries if the services are deemed to be medically necessary. Therefore, we are at-risk if the costs of providing necessary services exceed the associated reimbursement. Our contracts are not only short-term in nature but can also be terminated prior to expiration, without cause and without penalty to the payers, and there can be no assurance that they will survive until the end of their stated terms or that upon their expiration these contracts will be renewed or extended. Most of our contracts contain base periods of only one year. While some of them also contain options for renewal, usually successive six month or one year terms, payers are not required to extend their contracts into these option periods. In addition, a significant number of our social services contracts not only allow the payer to terminate the contract immediately for cause (such as for our failure to meet our contract obligations) but also permit the payer to terminate the contract at any time prior to its stated expiration date. In most cases the payer may terminate the social services contract without cause, at will and without penalty to the payer, either upon the expiration of a short notice period, typically 30 days, and/or immediately, in the event federal or state appropriations supporting the programs serviced by the contract are reduced or eliminated. In the case of our non-emergency transportation services contracts, these contracts are only cancellable for performance after notice and a cure period that typically ranges from 180 days to 365 days in length. The failure of payers to renew or extend significant contracts or their early termination of significant contracts could adversely affect our financial performance. We cannot anticipate if, when or to what extent a payer might terminate its contract with us prior to its expiration or fail to renew or extend its contract with us. Each of our contracts is subject to audit and modification by the payers with whom we contract, in their sole discretion. Our business depends on our ability to successfully perform under various government funded contracts. The payers under these contracts can review our performance under these contracts, as well as our records, accounting and general business practices at any time and may, in their discretion: • • • • suspend or prevent us from receiving new contracts or extending existing contracts because of violations or suspected violations of procurement laws or regulations; terminate or modify our existing contracts; reduce the amount we are paid under our existing contracts; and/or audit and object to our contract related fees. As a government contractor, we are subject to an increased risk of litigation and other legal actions and liabilities. As a government contractor, we are subject to an increased risk of investigation, criminal prosecution, civil fraud, whistleblower lawsuits and other legal actions and liabilities not often faced by companies that do not provide government sponsored services. The occurrence of any of these actions, regardless of the outcome, could disrupt our operations and cause us added expense and could limit our ability to obtain additional contracts in other jurisdictions. 14 A loss of our status as a licensed provider in any jurisdiction could result in the termination of a number of our contracts, which could negatively impact our revenues. If we lost our status as a licensed provider in any jurisdiction, the contracts under which we provide services in that jurisdiction would be subject to termination. Moreover, such an event could constitute a violation of provisions of our contracts in other jurisdictions, resulting in further contract terminations. If we fail to satisfy our contractual obligations, we could be liable for damages and financial penalties and harm our ability to keep our existing contracts or obtain new contracts. Our failure to comply with our contract obligations could, in addition to providing grounds for immediate termination of the contract for cause, negatively impact our financial performance and damage our reputation, which, in turn, could have a material adverse effect on our ability to obtain new contracts. Our failure to meet contractual obligations could also result in substantial actual and consequential damages. The termination of a contract for cause could, for instance, subject us to liability for excess costs incurred by a payer in obtaining similar services from another source. In addition, our contracts require us to indemnify payers for our failure to meet standards of care, and some of them contain liquidated damages provisions and financial penalties that we must pay if we breach these contracts. If we fail to estimate accurately the cost of performing certain contracts, we may incur losses on these contracts. Under our fee-for-service contracts, we receive fees based on our interactions with government sponsored clients. To earn a profit on these contracts, we must accurately estimate costs incurred in providing services. Our risk on these contracts is that our client population is not large enough to cover our fixed costs, such as rent and other overhead. Our fee-for-service contracts are not reimbursed on a cost basis and therefore, if we fail to estimate our costs accurately, we may incur losses on these contracts. Additionally, approximately 89% of our non-emergency transportation services revenue is generated under capitated contracts with the remainder generated through fee-for service and fixed cost contracts. Under our capitated contracts, we assume the responsibility of managing the needs of a specific geographic population by contracting out transportation services to local van, cab and ambulance companies on a per ride or per mile basis. We use a “pricing model” to determine applicable contract rates, which take into account factors, such as estimated utilization, state specific data, previous experience in the state and/or with similar services, estimated volume and availability of mass transit. The amount of the fixed monthly per member per month fee is determined in the bidding process but predicated on actual historical transportation data for the subject geographic region (provided by the payer), actuarial work performed in-house as well as by third party actuarial firms and actuarial analyses provided by the payer. If the utilization of our services is more than we estimated, the contract may not be profitable. Approximately 7.3% and 7.9% of our revenues for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively, were derived from cost based service contracts for which we record revenue based on a combination of direct costs, indirect overhead allocations, and stated contractual margins on those costs, which puts us at risk that we may be required to subsequently refund a portion of the excess funds, if any. Our cost based service contracts require us to allow for contingencies such as budgeted costs not incurred, excess cost per service over the allowable contract rate and/or an insufficient number of encounters. For the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009, revenues from these contracts represented approximately 7.3% and 7.9% of our total revenues for the respective period. In cases where funds paid to us exceed the allowable costs to provide services under the contracts, we may be required to pay back the excess funds. Our results of operations will fluctuate due to seasonality. Our quarterly operating results and operating cash flows normally fluctuate as a result of seasonal variations in our business. In our Social Services operating segment, lower client demand for our home and community based services during the holiday and summer seasons generally results in lower revenue during those periods; however, 15 our expenses related to the Social Services operating segment do not vary significantly with these changes. As a result, our Social Services operating segment experiences lower operating margins during the holiday and summer seasons. Our NET Services operating segment also experiences fluctuations in demand for our non-emergency transportation services during the summer, winter and holiday seasons. Due to higher demand in the summer months and lower demand in the winter and holiday seasons, coupled with a fixed revenue stream based on a per member per month based structure, our NET Services operating segment experiences lower operating margins in the summer season and higher operating margins in the winter and holiday seasons. We expect quarterly fluctuations in operating results and operating cash flows to continue as a result of the seasonal demand for our home and community based services and non-emergency transportation services. As we enter new markets, we could be subject to additional seasonal variations along with any competitive response by other social services and transportation providers. While we obtain some of our business through responses to government requests for proposals, we may not be awarded contracts through this process in the future, and contracts we are awarded may not be profitable. We obtain, and will continue to seek to obtain, a significant portion of our business from state or local government entities. To obtain business from government entities, we are often required to respond to requests for proposals, or RFPs. To propose effectively, we must accurately estimate our cost structure for servicing a proposed contract, the time required to establish operations and the terms of the proposals submitted by competitors. We must also assemble and submit a large volume of information within rigid and often short timetables. Our ability to respond successfully to RFPs will greatly impact our business. We may not be awarded contracts through the RFP process, and our proposals may not result in profitable contracts. If we fail to establish and maintain important relationships with officials of government entities and agencies, we may not be able to successfully procure or retain government-sponsored contracts, which could negatively impact our revenues. To facilitate our ability to procure or retain government-sponsored contracts, we rely in part on establishing and maintaining relationships with officials of various government entities and agencies. These relationships enable us to provide informal input and advice to the government entities and agencies prior to the development of an RFP or program for privatization of social services and enhance our chances of procuring contracts with these payers. The effectiveness of our relationships may be reduced or eliminated with changes in the personnel holding various government offices or staff positions. We also may lose key personnel who have these relationships. We may be unable to successfully manage our relationships with government entities and agencies and with elected officials and appointees. Any failure to establish, maintain or manage relationships with government and agency personnel may hinder our ability to procure or retain government-sponsored contracts. The federal government may refuse to grant consents and/or waivers necessary to permit for-profit entities to perform certain elements of government programs. Under current law, in order to privatize certain functions of government programs, the federal government must grant a consent and/or waiver to the petitioning state or local agency. If the federal government does not grant a necessary consent or waiver or withdraw approval of any granted waiver, the state or local agency will be unable to contract with a for-profit entity, such as us, to provide service. Failure by state or local agencies to obtain consents and/or waivers could adversely affect our continued business and future growth. Our business could be adversely affected by future legislative changes that hinder or reverse the privatization of social services. The market for our services depends largely on federal, state and local legislative programs. These programs can be modified or amended at any time. Moreover, part of our growth strategy includes aggressively pursuing opportunities created by the federal, state and local initiatives to privatize the delivery of social services. However, 16 there are opponents to the privatization of social services and, as a result, future privatization of social services is uncertain. If additional privatization initiatives are not proposed or enacted, or if previously enacted privatization initiatives are challenged, repealed or invalidated, our growth could be adversely impacted. Our strategic relationships with certain not-for-profit and tax exempt entities are subject to tax and other risks. Since some government agencies in certain of our markets prefer or require contracts for privatized social services to be administered through not-for-profit organizations, we rely on our long-term relationships with not-for-profit organizations to provide services to these government agencies. We currently maintain strategic relationships with 16 not-for-profit social services organizations with which we have management contracts of varying lengths, 13 of which are federally tax exempt organizations. Our strategic relationships with tax exempt not-for-profit organizations are similar to those in the hospital management industry where tax exempt or faith based not-for-profit hospitals are managed by for-profit companies. Federal tax law requires that the boards of directors of not-for-profit tax exempt organizations be independent. The boards of directors of the tax exempt not-for-profit organizations for which we provide management services have a majority of independent members. The board members are predominately selected from independent members of the local community in which the not-for-profit entity operates. Decisions regarding our business relationships with these not-for-profit entities are made by their independent board members including approving the management fees we charge to manage their organizations and any discretionary bonuses. Federal tax law also requires that the management fees we charge the not-for-profit entities we manage be fixed and at fair market rates. Typically a fairness opinion is obtained by the not-for-profit entities we manage from an independent third party valuation consultant that substantiates the fair market rates. If the Internal Revenue Service determined that any tax exempt organization was paying more than market rates for services performed by us, the managed entity could lose its tax exempt status and owe back taxes and penalties. Generally, under state law, not-for-profit entities may pay no more than reasonable compensation for services rendered. If the compensation paid to us by these not-for-profit entities is deemed unreasonable, then the state could take action against the not-for-profit entity which could adversely affect us. Government unions may oppose privatizing government programs to outside vendors such as us, which could limit our market opportunities. Our success depends in part on our ability to win contracts to administer and manage programs traditionally administered by government employees. Many government employees, however, belong to labor unions with considerable financial resources and lobbying networks. These unions could apply political pressure on legislators and other officials seeking to privatize government programs. Union opposition could result in our losing government contracts or being precluded from providing services under government contracts. Inaccurate, misleading or negative media coverage could damage our reputation and harm our ability to procure government sponsored contracts. The media sometimes provides news coverage about our contracts and the services we provide to clients. This media coverage, if negative, could influence government officials to slow the pace of privatizing government services. Moreover, inaccurate, misleading or negative media coverage about us could harm our reputation and, accordingly, our ability to obtain government sponsored contracts. 17 We may incur costs before receiving related revenues, which could result in cash shortfalls. When we are awarded a contract to provide services, we may incur expenses before we receive any contract payments. These expenses include leasing office space, purchasing office equipment and hiring personnel. As a result, in certain large contracts where the government does not fund program start-up costs, we may be required to invest significant sums of money before receiving related contract payments. In addition, payments due to us from payers may be delayed due to billing cycles or as a result of failures to approve government budgets in a timely manner. Moreover, any resulting cash shortfall could be exacerbated if we fail to either invoice the payer or to collect our fee in a timely manner. Our business is subject to risks of litigation. We are in the human services and non-emergency transportation services businesses which are subject to lawsuits and claims. A substantial award could have a material adverse impact on our operations and cash flow and could adversely impact our ability to continue to purchase appropriate liability insurance. We can be subject to claims for negligence or intentional misconduct (in addition to professional liability type claims) by an employee, including but not limited to, claims arising out of accidents involving vehicle collisions, and various claims that could result from employees driving to or from interactions with clients and while providing direct client services. We are also subject to claims alleging we did not properly treat an individual or failed to properly diagnose and/or care for a client. We can be subject to employee related claims such as wrongful discharge or discrimination or a violation of equal employment law and permitting issues. While we are insured for these types of claims, damages exceeding our insurance limits or outside our insurance coverage, such as a claim for fraud or punitive damages, could adversely affect our cash flow and financial condition. Furthermore, we can be subject to miscellaneous errors and omissions liability relative to the various management agreements we have with the not-for-profit entities we manage. In the event of a claim and depending on, among other things, the circumstances, allegations, and size of the management contract, we could be subject to damages that could have a material adverse impact on our financial condition and results of operations. Our use of a reinsurance program to cover certain claims for losses suffered and costs or expenses incurred could negatively impact our business. We are reinsured with regard to a substantial portion of our general liability, professional liability and workers’ compensation insurance. We also reinsure the general liability, professional liability, workers’ compensation insurance, and automobile liability of certain designated affiliated entities and independent third party transportation providers over various policy years under reinsurance programs through our two wholly-owned captive insurance subsidiaries. In the event that actual reinsured losses increase unexpectedly or exceed actuarially determined estimated reinsured losses under the program, the aggregate of such losses could materially increase our liability and adversely affect our financial condition, liquidity, cash flows and results of operations. In addition, as the availability to us of certain traditional insurance coverage diminishes or increases in cost, we will continue to evaluate the levels and types of insurance we include in our self-insurance program. Any increase to this program increases our risk exposure and therefore increases the risk of a possible material adverse effect on our financial condition, liquidity, cash flows and results of operations. We could be subject to significant state regulation and potential sanctions if our health care benefits program is deemed to be a multiple employer welfare arrangement. For the purpose of managing and providing employee healthcare benefits we deem ourselves to be a single employer under Section 3(5) of ERISA with regard to our own employees as well as the employees of certain of our managed entities covered by our healthcare benefit program to whom we offered healthcare benefits through June 2007. The Department of Labor or individual states could disagree with our interpretation and consider our program to be a multiple employer welfare arrangement, or MEWA, and, as such, subject to regulation by state insurance commissions. If involuntarily deemed a MEWA, our cost to manage the state-by-state regulatory environment for 18 the self-funded portion of our health insurance program would be prohibitive and we could, as a result, elect to maintain our self-funded health insurance plan only for our owned entities, forcing the three managed entities currently included in our self-funded plan to negotiate and purchase their own health benefits. In addition, if our health care benefits program is determined to be a MEWA, civil and/or criminal sanctions are possible. We face substantial competition in attracting and retaining experienced professionals, particularly social service professionals with respect to our social services and intellectual technology professionals with respect to our non-emergency transportation services, and we may be unable to grow our business if we cannot attract and retain qualified employees. Our success depends to a significant degree on our ability to attract and retain highly qualified and experienced social services professionals who possess the skills and experience necessary to deliver high quality services to our clients. Our objective of providing the highest quality of service to our clients is strongly considered when we evaluate education, experience and qualifications of potential candidates for employment as direct care and administrative staff. To that end, we attempt to hire professionals who have attained a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree or higher level of education and certification or licensure as direct care social services providers and administrators. These employees are in great demand and are likely to remain a limited resource for the foreseeable future. We must quickly hire project leaders and case management personnel after a contract is awarded to us. Contract provisions and client needs determine the number, education and experience levels of social services professionals we hire. We continually evaluate client census, case loads and client eligibility to determine our staffing needs under each contract. Our performance in our non-emergency transportation services business largely depends on the talents and efforts of our highly skilled intellectual technology professionals. Competition for skilled intellectual technology professionals can be intense. Our success depends on our ability to recruit, retain and motivate these individuals. Our ability to attract and retain employees with the requisite experience and skills depends on several factors including, but not limited to, our ability to offer competitive wages, benefits and professional growth opportunities. Some of the companies with which we compete for experienced personnel have greater financial, technical, political and marketing resources, name recognition and a larger number of clients and payers than we do. The inability to attract and retain experienced personnel could have a material adverse effect on our business. Our success depends on our ability to manage growing and changing operations. Since 1996, our business has grown significantly in size and complexity. This growth has placed, and is expected to continue to place, significant demands on our management, systems, internal controls and financial and physical resources. In addition, we expect that we will need to further develop our financial and managerial controls and reporting systems to accommodate future growth. This could require us to incur expenses for hiring additional qualified personnel, retaining professionals to assist in developing the appropriate control systems and expanding our information technology infrastructure. The nature of our business is such that qualified management personnel can be difficult to find. Our inability to manage growth effectively could have a material adverse effect on our financial results. Any acquisition that we undertake could be difficult to integrate, disrupt our business, dilute stockholder value and harm our operating results. We anticipate that we will continue making strategic acquisitions as part of our growth strategy. We have made a number of acquisitions since our inception, including 21 since our initial public offering in August 2003. The success of these and other acquisitions depends in part on our ability to integrate acquired companies into our business operations. There can be no assurance that the companies acquired will continue to generate income at the same historical levels on which we based our acquisition decisions, that we will be able to maintain or renew the acquired companies’ contracts, that we will be able to realize operating and economic efficiencies upon integration of acquired companies, or that the acquisitions will not adversely affect our results of operations or financial condition. 19 We continually review opportunities to acquire other businesses that would complement our current services, expand our markets or otherwise offer growth opportunities. In connection with our acquisition strategy, we could issue stock that would dilute existing stockholders’ percentage ownership and/or we could incur or assume substantial debt or assume contingent liabilities. Acquisitions involve numerous risks, including, but not limited to, the following: • • • • • • • • • • problems assimilating the purchased operations; unanticipated costs and legal or financial liabilities associated with an acquisition; diversion of management’s attention from our core businesses; adverse effects on existing business relationships with customers; entering markets in which we have limited or no experience; potential loss of key employees of purchased organizations; the incurrence of excessive leverage in financing an acquisition; failure to maintain and renew contracts; unanticipated operating, accounting or management difficulties in connection with an acquisition; and dilution to our earnings per share. We cannot assure you that we will be successful in overcoming problems encountered in connection with any acquisition and our inability to do so could disrupt our operations and adversely affect our business. Changes in the accounting method for business combinations may have an adverse impact on our reported or future financial results. For the years ended December 31, 2008 and prior, we capitalized substantially all acquisition-related costs such as attorney’s fees and accountant’s fees, as well as contingent consideration to the seller as part of the purchase price. Beginning with the year ended December 31, 2009, with respect to business acquisitions we complete, we are required to: expense acquisition related costs as incurred; record contingent consideration at fair value at the acquisition date with subsequent changes in fair value to be recognized in the income statement; and recognize any adjustments to the purchase price allocation as a period cost in our income statement under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. Our success depends on our ability to compete effectively in the marketplace. In our social services business, we compete for clients and for contracts with a variety of organizations that offer similar services. Most of our competition consists of local social services organizations that compete with us for local contracts such as United Way supported agencies and faith-based agencies such as Catholic Social Services, Jewish Family and Children’s Services and the Salvation Army. Other competitors include local not-for-profit organizations and community based organizations. Historically, these types of organizations have been favored in our industry as incumbent providers of services to government entities. We also compete with larger companies, such as Res-Care, Inc., which provides support services, training and educational programs predominantly to Medicaid eligible beneficiaries. National Mentor, Inc. is the country’s largest provider of foster care services and competes with us in existing markets for foster care services. In addition, many institutional providers offer some type of community based care including such organizations as Cornell Companies, Inc., Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. and The Devereaux Foundation. Some of these companies have greater financial, technical, political, marketing, name recognition and other resources and a larger number of clients and/or payers than we do. In addition, some of these companies offer more services than we do. We have experienced, and expect 20 to continue to experience, competition from new entrants into the markets in which we operate our social services business. Increased competition may result in pricing pressures, loss of or failure to gain market share or loss of clients or payers, any of which could harm our business. We compete with a variety of organizations that provide similar non-emergency transportation services to Medicaid eligible beneficiaries in local markets such as American Medical Response, Coordinated Transportation Solutions, Inc., First Transit, Inc., Medical Transportation Management Inc., MV Transportation, Inc., and Southeast Trans. Our competitors largely compete for smaller-scale contract opportunities that encompass smaller geographic areas. For example, most of our competitors seek to win contracts for specific counties, whereas we seek to win contracts for the entire state. If these competitors begin to compete on a larger scale basis, it could result in pricing pressures, loss of or failure to gain market share or loss of clients or payers, any of which could harm our business. Our business is subject to state licensing regulations and other regulatory provisions, including regulatory provisions governing surveys, audits, anti-kickbacks, self-referrals, false claims and The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA, and changes to or violations of these regulations could negatively impact our revenues. In many of the locations where we operate, we are required by state law to obtain and maintain licenses. The applicable state and local licensing requirements govern the services we provide, the credentials of staff, record keeping, treatment planning, client monitoring and supervision of staff. The failure to maintain these licenses or the loss of a license could have a material adverse impact on our business and could prevent us from providing services to clients in a given jurisdiction. Most of our contracts are subject to surveys or audit by our payers. We are also subject to regulations that restrict our ability to contract directly with a government agency in certain situations. Such restrictions could affect our ability to contract with certain payers. In addition, we are or may be subject to anti-kickback, self-referral and false claim laws. Violations of these laws may result in significant penalties, including repayment of any amounts alleged to be overpayments or in violation of such laws, criminal fines, civil money penalties, damages, imprisonment, a ban from participation in federally funded healthcare programs and/or bans from obtaining government contracts. Such fines and other penalties could negatively impact our business by decreasing profits due to repayment of overpayments or from the imposition of fines and damages, damaging our reputation and diverting our management resources. Due to our access, use or disclosure of health information relating to individuals, we are subject to the privacy mandates of HIPAA. HIPAA mandates, among other things, the adoption of standards to enhance the efficiency and simplify the administration of the nation’s healthcare system. HIPAA requires the United States Department of Health and Human Services, or DHHS, to adopt standards for electronic transactions and code sets for basic healthcare transactions such as payment, eligibility and remittance advices, or “transaction standards,” privacy of individually identifiable health information, or “privacy standards,” security of individually identifiable health information, or “security standards,” electronic signatures, as well as unique identifiers for providers, employers, health plans and individuals and enforcement. Final regulations have been issued by DHHS for the privacy standards, and some of the transaction standards and security standards. As a healthcare provider, we are required to comply in our operations with these standards as applicable and are subject to significant civil and criminal penalties for failure to do so. In addition, in connection with providing services to customers that also are healthcare providers, we are required to provide satisfactory written assurances to those customers that we will provide those services in accordance with the privacy standards and security standards. HIPAA has and will require significant and costly changes for our company and others in the healthcare industry. Compliance with the privacy standards became mandatory in April 2003, compliance with the transaction standards became mandatory in October 2003 (although full implementation was delayed with respect to the Medicare program until October 2005), and compliance with the security standards became mandatory in April 2005. In February 2006, DHHS published its Final Rule on Enforcement of the HIPAA Administrative Simplification provisions, including the transaction standards, the security standards and the privacy rule. This enforcement rule 21 addresses, among other issues, DHHS’s policies for determining violations and calculating civil money penalties, how DHHS will address the statutory limitations on the imposition of civil monetary penalties, and various procedural issues. We have appointed an internal committee to maintain our privacy and security policies regarding client information in compliance with HIPAA. This committee is responsible for training our employees, including our regional and local managers and staff, to comply with HIPAA and monitoring compliance with the policy. However, like other businesses subject to HIPAA regulations, we cannot fully predict the total financial or other impact of these regulations on us. The costs associated with our ongoing compliance could be substantial, which could negatively impact our profitability. Our international operations expose us to various risks, any number of which could harm our business. As a result of our acquisition of WCG International Consultants Ltd. on August 1, 2007, we now have operations in Canada. We are subject to the risks inherent in conducting business across national boundaries, any one of which could adversely impact our business. In addition to currency fluctuations, these risks include, among other things: • • • • • • • economic downturns; changes in or interpretations of local law, governmental policy or regulation; restrictions on the transfer of funds into or out of the country; varying tax systems; delays from doing business with governmental agencies; nationalization of foreign assets; and government protectionism. We intend to continue to evaluate opportunities to establish new operations in Canada. One or more of the foregoing factors could impair our current or future operations and, as a result, harm our overall business. We operate in multiple tax jurisdictions and we are taxable in most of them and face the risk of double taxation if one jurisdiction does not acquiesce to the tax claims of another jurisdiction. We currently operate in the United States and Canada and are subject to income taxes in those countries and the specific states and/or provinces where we operate. In the event one taxing jurisdiction disagrees with another taxing jurisdiction, we could experience temporary or permanent double taxation and increased professional fees to resolve taxation matters. Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments. None. Item 2. Properties. We lease our approximately 4,000 square foot corporate office building in Tucson, Arizona under a seven year lease, which is currently in its fifth year. The monthly base rental payment under this lease as of December 31, 2009 in the amount of approximately $6,214 is subject to an annual 3% increase over the initial term of the lease. We also lease office space for other administrative services in Tucson. The lease terms vary and are in line with market rates. In connection with the performance of our contracts and the contracts of our managed entities within our Social Services operating segment, we lease over 200 offices and the entities we manage lease over 100 offices for management and administrative functions. In connection with the performance of our contracts within our NET Services operating segment, we lease over 30 offices for management and administrative functions. The lease terms vary and are generally at market rates. 22 We acquired a 5,760 square foot office building in Pottsville, Pennsylvania in connection with the acquisition of Providence Community Services, Inc. (formerly known as Pottsville Behavioral Counseling Group, Inc.), which is free of any mortgage. Effective February 4, 2010, we entered into a renewable five year lease agreement for a 10,675 square foot building in downtown Tucson. The monthly base rental payment under this lease is $17,733. It is anticipated that our corporate offices will move to this location during 2010. With this additional space we believe that our properties are adequate for our current business needs. Further, we believe that we can obtain adequate space to meet our foreseeable business needs. Item 3. Legal Proceedings. Although we believe we are not currently a party to any material litigation, we may from time to time become involved in litigation relating to claims arising from our ordinary course of business. These claims, even if not meritorious, could result in the expenditure of significant financial and managerial resources. Item 4. (Removed and Reserved). 23 PART II Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities. Market for our common stock Our common stock, $0.001 par value per share, our only class of common equity, has been quoted on NASDAQ under the symbol “PRSC” since August 19, 2003. Prior to that time there was no public market for our common stock. As of March 8, 2010, there were six holders of record of our common stock. The following table sets forth the high and low sales prices per share of our common stock for the period indicated, as reported on NASDAQ Global Select Market: 2009 Fourth Quarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Third Quarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Second Quarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . First Quarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2008 Fourth Quarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Third Quarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Second Quarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . First Quarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . High Low $16.87 $12.73 $14.17 $ 7.75 $10.00 $21.60 $30.50 $31.36 $ 9.51 $ 8.80 $ 6.64 $ 1.33 $ 0.68 $ 8.75 $20.50 $25.09 24 Stock Performance Graph The following graph shows a comparison of the cumulative total return for our Common Stock, Nasdaq Health Index and Russell 2000 Index assuming an investment of $100 in each on December 31, 2004. COMPARISON OF 5 YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN* AMONG PROVIDENCE SERVICE CORPORATION, THE RUSSELL 2000 INDEX AND THE NASDAQ HEALTH SERVICES 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 S R A L L O D 0 12/31/04 12/05 12/06 12/07 12/08 12/09 PROVIDENCE SERVICE CORPORATION RUSSELL 2000 NASDAQ HEALTH INDEX *$100 INVESTED ON DEC. 31, 2004 IN STOCK OR INDEX, INCLUDING REINVESTMENT OF DIVIDENDS. FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31. Dividends We have not paid any cash dividends on our common stock and do not plan to pay dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future. In addition, our ability to pay dividends is prohibited by the terms of our credit and guaranty agreement, as amended, with CIT if there is a default under such agreement or if the payment of a dividend would result in a default. The payment of future cash dividends, if any, will be reviewed periodically by the Board and will depend upon, among other things, our financial condition, funds from operations, the level of our capital and development expenditures, any restrictions imposed by present or future debt instruments and changes in federal tax policies, if any. 25 Item 6. Selected Financial Data. The following table sets forth selected consolidated financial data, other financial data and other data. The selected consolidated financial data for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009 and as of December 31, 2008 and 2009 are derived from our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this report. The selected consolidated financial data for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2006 and as of December 31, 2005, 2006 and 2007 are derived from our audited financial statements not included in this report. You should read this information with our consolidated financial statements and the related notes and Item 7 entitled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” all of which are included elsewhere in this report. Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2005(3)(4) 2006(3)(4)(5) 2007(3) 2008(1)(3)(10) 2009(1)(12) (dollars in thousands) Statement of operations data: Revenues: Home and community based services . . . . . . . . Foster care services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Management fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Non-emergency transportation services . . . . . . . $115,466 15,795 14,447 — $152,067 21,913 17,877 — $216,583 25,648 20,069 22,867 $ 258,003 32,343 20,217 381,107 $289,007 37,284 14,447 460,275 Total revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Operating expenses: Client service expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cost of non-emergency transportation services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . General and administrative expense . . . . . . . . . Asset impairment charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Depreciation and amortization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145,708 191,857 285,167 691,670 801,013 108,939 149,516 204,021 253,652 275,126 — 18,178 — 2,094 — 23,437 — 3,463 19,570 30,875 — 4,989 356,271 48,412 169,930 12,722 415,300 44,010 — 12,852 Total operating expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129,211 176,416 259,455 840,987 747,288 Operating income (loss) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Non-operating (income) expenses Interest expense, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Income (loss) before income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Provision (benefit) for income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,497 15,441 25,712 (149,317) 53,725 765 15,732 6,307 (601) 16,042 6,661 1,601 24,111 9,722 18,599 (167,916) (12,311) 20,432 33,293 12,167 Net income (loss) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 9,425 $ 9,381 $ 14,389 $(155,605) $ 21,126 26 Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2005(3)(4) 2006(3)(4)(5) 2007(3) 2008(3)(10) 2009(3)(12) (dollars in thousands, except per share data and “Other data”) Net earnings (loss) per share data: Diluted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 0.95 $ 0.80 $ 1.19 $ (12.42) $ 1.60 Weighted average shares outstanding: Diluted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,885 11,676 12,047 12,532 13,211 Other financial data: Managed entity revenue (1) (unaudited) . . . . $151,037 $187,110 $ 225,018 $ 242,855 $ 216,628 Other data (2) (unaudited): States served . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Managed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Managed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Managed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Non-emergency transportation 25 204 4,930 2,531 2,399 527 281 246 35,646 18,893 16,753 36 306 6,828 3,569 3,259 868 558 310 71,134 48,039 23,095 38 410 9,864 5,572 4,292 958 638 320 7,276,195 52,570 23,625 43 438 10,473 6,271 4,202 1,039 716 323 6,413,756 62,820 24,494 43 427 10,414 7,015 3,399 1,005 734 271 7,778,983 62,213 19,645 services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . — — 7,200,000 6,326,442 7,697,125 As of December 31, 2005 2006(6)(7) 2007(8)(9) 2008(10) 2009(11) (dollars in thousands) Balance sheet data: Cash and cash equivalents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total current liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Long-term obligations, less current portion . . . . . Other liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total stockholders’ equity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 8,994 119,013 19,543 14,241 3,983 81,246 $ 40,703 192,335 28,599 619 4,061 159,056 $ 35,379 551,984 96,416 236,469 30,790 188,309 $ 29,364 365,663 90,207 223,494 14,071 37,891 $ 51,157 383,107 117,153 186,732 16,884 62,338 (1) Managed entity revenue represents revenues of the not-for-profit social services organizations we manage. Although these revenues are not our revenues, because we provide substantially all administrative functions for these entities and a significant portion of our management fees is based on a percentage of their revenues, we believe that the presentation of managed entity revenue provides investors with an additional measure of the size of the operations under our administration and can help them understand trends in our management fee revenue. As a result of our acquisition of substantially all of the assets in Illinois and Indiana of CCC on September 30, 2008, we began consolidating the financial results of these operations on October 1, 2008, the impact of which partially offset the increase in managed entity revenue for 2008 as compared to 2007 by approximately $2.9 million and resulted in a decrease in managed entity revenue of approximately $9.5 million for 2009 as compared to 2008. An additional decrease of $14.0 million was attributable to a managed entity for which we ceased providing significant services beginning in 2009. The increase in management fees for 2008 as compared to 2007 was partially offset by approximately $731,000 due to our acquisition and consolidation of substantially all of the assets in Illinois and Indiana of CCC in September 2008. The impact of this acquisition and the effect of changes made to management services arrangements with certain of our managed entities effective January 1, 2009 resulted in a decrease in management fees revenue of approximately $5.8 million for 2009 as compared to 2008. (2) “States served,” “Locations,” “Employees” and “Contracts” data are as of the end of the period for owned and managed entities. “Clients” data represents the number of clients served during the last month of the period 27 presented for owned and managed entities except for non-emergency transportation services where the data represents the number of members enrolled under our non-emergency transportation capitated contracts as of the end of the last month of the period presented. “States served” excludes the District of Columbia and British Columbia. “Direct” refers to the employees, contracts and clients related to contracts made directly with payers. “Managed” refers to the employees, contracts and clients related to management agreements with not-for-profit organizations. Employees are designated according to their primary employer although employees may provide services under both direct and managed contracts. (3) Several acquisitions were completed in the fiscal years ended December 31, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 which affected the comparability of the information reflected in the selected financial data. See the year-to-year analysis included in Item 7 “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” of this report for more information. (4) Home and community based services revenue for 2005 and 2006 included approximately $3.6 million and $2.5 million of revenue, respectively, under our annual block purchase contract in excess of the annual funding allocation amount. In 2006, we reserved approximately $4.0 million of the aggregate revenue accrued in 2005 and 2006 (noted in footnote (4) above) under our annual block purchase contract in excess of the annual funding allocation amount. (5) (6) On April 17, 2006, we completed a follow-on offering of common stock in connection with which we sold 2,000,000 shares at an offering price of $32.00 per share, which included the full exercise of the underwriter’s over-allotment option. We received net proceeds of approximately $60.3 million after deducting the underwriting discounts of $3.7 million, but before deducting other offering costs totaling approximately $770,000. (7) On April 18, 2006, we prepaid approximately $15.8 million of the principal and accrued interest then (8) outstanding related to our credit facility with CIT Healthcare LLC out of the net proceeds from our follow-on offering of common stock completed on April 17, 2006. In February 2007, our board of directors approved a stock repurchase program whereby we may repurchase shares of our common stock from the open market from time to time. As of December 31, 2007, we spent approximately $10.9 million to purchase 462,500 shares of our common stock in the open market under this program. The shares of our common stock repurchased were placed into treasury. No shares of our common stock were repurchased under this program during 2008 and 2009. (9) As a result of our acquisition activity during 2007, we incurred approximately $243.0 million of debt obligations by issuing $70.0 million of the subordinated notes and drawing down $173.0 million under our credit and guaranty agreement with CIT Healthcare LLC. (10) Due to the significant and sustained decline in our market capitalization and the uncertainty in the state payer environment as well as the impact of related budgetary decisions on our earnings, we initiated asset impairment tests and, based on the results, we recorded asset impairment charges totaling approximately $169.9 million related to our goodwill and other intangible assets for the year ended December 31, 2008. (11) In the fourth quarter of 2009, we prepaid $20.0 million of our term loan debt under the credit and guaranty agreement, as amended. Our current and long-term debt obligations decreased to approximately $204.2 million at December 31, 2009 from $237.8 million at December 31, 2008 (12) Non-emergency transportation services revenue for 2009 was positively impacted by the effect of membership increases related to new and existing contracts and negotiated rate increases throughout a number of contracts due to increased utilization, program enhancements and future projected program costs. In addition, utilization of our education and other school-based programs increased significantly in 2009 compared to the utilization levels in 2008. For a more detailed discussion of the effects of the events noted above on our revenue and operating margin for 2009 as compared to 2008, see the year-to-year analysis included in Item 7 “Management’s Discussion of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” of this report. 28 Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with Item 6, entitled, “Selected Financial Data” and our consolidated financial statements and related notes included in Item 8 of this report. This discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Certain risks, uncertainties and other factors, including but not limited to those set forth in Item 1A, entitled, “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this report may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Overview of our business We provide government sponsored social services directly and through not-for-profit social services organizations whose operations we manage, and we arrange for and manage non-emergency transportation services. As a result of and in response to the large and growing population of eligible beneficiaries of government sponsored social services and non-emergency transportation services, increasing pressure on governments to control costs and increasing acceptance of privatized social services, we have grown both organically and by consummating strategic acquisitions. We have implemented several strategic initiatives to enhance stockholder value such as growing our core social services and non-emergency transportation management services businesses, reducing corporate and client service costs as a percentage of revenue and reducing our debt. As a result, we have accomplished the following: • • • • • Growing our core social services business. In February 2009, we were awarded a U.S. $16.4 million three-year contract in Canada to operate a work force development program for returning veterans and two new annual contracts in California (aggregating $2.5 million per year) to operate adult mental health wellness centers. Focusing on our core competencies in the delivery of home and community based counseling, foster care and not-for-profit managed services, we believe we are well positioned to offer the highest quality and much needed services to state and local governments and our clients. Our goal is to be the primary provider of choice to the social services industry. Growing our non-emergency transportation management services business. Commencing in February and continuing throughout 2009, we added HMO commercial and Medicaid contracts in Hawaii, Nevada, Arizona and California. In April 2009, we were awarded a five year contract in the state of New Jersey to provide non-emergency transportation services. Hiring of chief strategy officer. for identifying new markets and new opportunities, develop and execute business and marketing plans and assist our field offices in initiating strategies designed to align local operations with developing payer funding initiatives. In 2010, we appointed a chief strategy officer, who will be responsible Reducing corporate and client costs as a percentage of revenue. We took several steps to increase our profitability by decreasing our operating expenses. We implemented an across-the-board wage freeze and made reductions in vacation, sick and holiday pay effective as of January 1, 2009; health care benefit reductions were made effective as of July 1, 2009; we reduced our workforce in certain operations in Pennsylvania and North Carolina; and, in selected markets, we decreased the use of fixed-salaried personnel in favor of hourly employees. The across-the-board wage freeze was in effect for 2009. Beginning in January 2010, we have begun phasing out the wage freeze and providing our employees with wage increases based on our compensation policy. Amending financial covenants and reducing our debt. As a result of consummating certain acquisitions we have significant contractual obligations, including financial covenant requirements, related to our long-term debt for the fiscal year 2010 and beyond. To address our liquidity concerns related to our ability to meet our financial covenant requirements, we entered into an amendment to our credit and guaranty agreement with CIT Capital Securities LLC, or CIT, on March 11, 2009 to, among other things, change 29 those requirements as more fully described below under the heading entitled “Liquidity and capital resources.” As a result of this amendment, we believe that we will meet all of our financial covenant requirements (although there can be no guarantee that we will) and that we have sufficient resources to fund our normal operations for the 12 months ending December 31, 2010. In addition, we prepaid $20.0 million of our term loan debt under the credit and guaranty agreement, as amended, in the fourth quarter of 2009 and $5.0 million in January 2010 as more fully described below under the heading entitled “Liquidity and capital resources.” We believe our business model of not owning beds or fleets of vehicles enables us to be nimble in the face of recent uncertain market conditions. We are focused on legislative trends both at the federal and state levels as current economic conditions have renewed the push for healthcare reform. The passage of healthcare reform legislation could accelerate the demand for our services. In addition, we have seen improvements with government payers aided by federal stimulus funds and federal court intervention in the California Medicaid debate. While we believe we are well positioned to benefit from healthcare reform and to offer our services to a growing population of individuals eligible to receive our services, there can be no assurances that favorable healthcare reform will be passed or that programs under which we provide our services will receive continued or increased funding. Our direct client census related to our social services contracts remained relatively consistent from 2008 to 2009 at over 62,000 with increases in federally funded programs such as workforce development and Medicaid offset by declines in state-funded business and foster care. In 2009, we ceased providing services to a managed entity which primarily accounted for a decrease in our managed client census from approximately 24,500 at December 31, 2008 to approximately 19,600 at December 31, 2009. As of December 31, 2009, there were approximately 7.7 million individuals eligible to receive services under our non-emergency transportation services contracts. We provided services to our clients from 427 locations in 43 states, the District of Columbia and British Columbia. Our working capital requirements are primarily funded by cash from operations and borrowings from our credit facility with CIT, which provides funding for general corporate purposes and acquisitions. How we grow our business and evaluate our performance Our business grows internally through organic expansion into new markets, increases in the number of clients served under contracts we or the entities we manage are awarded, and externally through acquisitions. We typically pursue organic expansion into markets that are contiguous to our existing markets or where we believe we can quickly establish a significant presence. When we expand organically into a market, we typically have no clients or perform no management services in the market and are required to incur start-up costs including the costs of space, required permits and initial personnel. These costs are expensed as incurred and our new offices can be expected to incur losses for a period of time until we adequately grow our revenue from clients or management fees. We also pursue strategic acquisitions in markets where we see opportunities but where we lack the contacts and/or personnel to make a successful organic entry. Unlike organic expansion which involves start-up costs that may dilute earnings, expansion through acquisitions have generally been accretive to our earnings. However, we bear financing risk and where debt is used, the risk of leverage by expanding through acquisitions. We also must integrate the acquired business into our operations which could disrupt our business and we may not be able to realize operating and economic efficiencies upon integration. Finally, our acquisitions involve purchase prices in excess of the fair value of tangible assets and cash or receivables. This excess purchase price is allocated to intangible assets and is subject to periodic evaluation and impairment or other write downs that are charges against our earnings. 30 In all our markets we focus on several key performance indicators in managing our business. Specifically, we focus on growth in the number of clients served, as that particular metric is the key driver of our revenue growth. We also focus on the number of employees and the amount of outsourced transportation cost as these items are our most important variable costs and the key to the management of our operating margins. Acquisitions We continue to selectively identify and pursue attractive acquisition opportunities. There are no assurances, however, that we will complete acquisitions in the future or that any completed acquisitions will prove profitable for us. How we earn our revenue We operate in two segments: Social Services and Non-Emergency Transportation Services, or NET Services. Social Services Our revenue is derived from our provider contracts with state and local government agencies and government intermediaries, HMO’s, commercial insurers, and from our management contracts with not-for-profit social services organizations. The government entities that pay for our services include welfare, child welfare and justice departments, public schools and state Medicaid programs. Under a majority of the contracts where we provide social services directly, we are paid an hourly fee. In other such situations, we receive a set monthly amount or we are paid amounts equal to the costs we incur to provide agreed upon services. These revenues are presented in our consolidated statements of operations as either revenue from home and community based services or foster care services. Where we contract to manage the operations of not-for-profit social services organizations, we receive a management fee that is either based upon a percentage of the revenue of the managed entity or a predetermined fee. These revenues are presented in our consolidated statements of operations as management fees. Because we provide substantially all administrative functions for these entities and our management fees are largely dependent upon their revenues, we also monitor for management and disclosure purposes the revenues of the entities we manage. We refer to the revenues of these entities as managed entity revenue. NET Services Where we provide management services for non-emergency transportation, we contract with state Medicaid and local agencies, regional and medical hospital systems or private managed care companies. Most of our contracts for non-emergency transportation management services are capitated (where we are paid on a per member per month basis for each eligible member). We do not direct bill for services under our capitated contracts as our revenue is based on covered lives. Our special needs school transportation contracts are with local governments and are paid on a per trip basis or per bus per day basis. These revenues are presented in our consolidated statements of operations as non-emergency transportation services revenue. FASB Codification Discussion We follow accounting standards set by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, commonly referred to as the FASB. The FASB establishes accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, or GAAP. Over the years, the FASB and other designated GAAP-setting bodies, have issued standards in the form of FASB Statements, Interpretations, FASB Staff Positions, EITF consensuses, AICPA Statements of Position, etc. The FASB recognized the complexity of its standard-setting process and embarked on a revised process in 2004 that culminated in the release on July 1, 2009, of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification, sometimes 31 referred to as the Codification or ASC. The Codification does not change how we account for our transactions or the nature of related disclosures made. In addition, the Codification does not replace or affect authoritative accounting and reporting guidance issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, or its staff for public companies in their filings with the SEC. However, when referring to guidance issued by the FASB, we refer to topics in the ASC rather than FASB Statements or EITF consensuses, etc. The above change was made effective by the FASB for periods ending on or after September 15, 2009. We have updated references to GAAP in this report on Form 10-K to reflect the guidance in the Codification. Critical accounting policies and estimates General In preparing our financial statements in accordance with GAAP, we are required to make estimates and judgments that affect the amounts reflected in our financial statements. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. However, actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. Critical accounting policies are those policies most important to the portrayal of our financial condition and results of operations. These policies require our most difficult, subjective or complex judgments, often employing the use of estimates about the effect of matters inherently uncertain. Our most critical accounting policies pertain to revenue recognition, accounts receivable and allowance for doubtful accounts, accounting for business combinations, goodwill and other intangible assets, accrued transportation costs, accounting for management agreement relationships, loss reserves for certain reinsurance and self-funded insurance programs, stock-based compensation, foreign currency translation, derivative instruments and hedging activities and income taxes. We have reviewed our critical accounting estimates with our board of directors, audit committee and disclosure committee. Revenue recognition We recognize revenue at the time services are rendered at predetermined amounts stated in our contracts and when the collection of these amounts is considered to be reasonably assured. At times we may receive funding for certain services in advance of services actually being rendered. These amounts are reflected in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets as deferred revenue until the actual services are rendered. As services are rendered, documentation is prepared describing each service, time spent, and billing code under each contract to determine and support the value of each service provided. This documentation is used as a basis for billing under our contracts. The billing process and documentation submitted under our contracts vary among our payers. The timing, amount and collection of our revenues under these contracts are dependent upon our ability to comply with the various billing requirements specified by each payer. Failure to comply with these requirements could delay the collection of amounts due to us under a contract or result in adjustments to amounts billed. The performance of our contracts is subject to the condition that sufficient funds are appropriated, authorized and allocated by each state, city or other local government. If sufficient appropriations, authorizations and allocations are not provided by the respective state, city or other local government, we are at risk of immediate termination or renegotiation of the financial terms of our contracts. Social Services segment Fee-for-service contracts. Revenue related to services provided under fee-for-service contracts is recognized at the time services are rendered and collection is determined to be probable. Such services are provided at established billing rates. Fee-for-service contracts represented approximately 70.4% and 70.6% of our Social Services operating segment revenue for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively. 32 Cost based service contracts. Revenue from our cost based service contracts is recorded based on a combination of direct costs, indirect overhead allocations, and stated contractual margins on those costs. These revenues are compared to annual contract budget limits and, depending on reporting requirements, allowances may be recorded for certain contingencies such as projected costs not incurred, excess cost per service over the allowable contract rate and/or insufficient encounters. This policy results in recognizing revenue from these contracts based on allowable costs incurred. The annual contract amount is based on projected costs to provide services under the contracts with adjustments for changes in the total contract amount. We annually submit projected costs for the coming year which assist the contracting payers in establishing the annual contract amount to be paid for services provided under the contracts. After the contracting payers’ year end, we submit cost reports which are used by the contracting payers to determine the amount, if any, by which funds paid to us for services provided under the contracts were greater than the allowable costs to provide these services. Completion of this review process may take several years from the date we submit the cost report. In cases where funds paid to us exceed the allowable costs to provide services under contract, we may be required to pay back the excess funds. Our cost reports are routinely audited by our payers on an annual basis. We periodically review our provisional billing rates and allocation of costs and provide for estimated adjustments from the contracting payers. We believe that adequate provisions have been made in our consolidated financial statements for any adjustments that might result from the outcome of any cost report audits. Differences between the amounts provided and the settlement amounts, which historically have not been material, are recorded in our consolidated statement of operations in the year of settlement. Cost based service contracts represented approximately 16.4% and 18.5% of our Social Services operating segment revenue for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively. Annual block purchase contract. Our annual block purchase contract with The Community Partnership of Southern Arizona, referred to as CPSA, requires us to provide or arrange for behavioral health services to eligible populations of beneficiaries as defined in the contract. We must provide a complete range of behavioral health clinical, case management, therapeutic and administrative services. We are obliged to provide services only to those clients with a demonstrated medical necessity. Our annual funding allocation amount is subject to increase when our encounters exceed the contract amount; however, such increases in the annual funding allocation amount are subject to government appropriation and may not be approved. There is no contractual limit to the number of eligible beneficiaries that may be assigned to us, or a specified limit to the level of services that may be provided to these beneficiaries if the services are deemed to be medically necessary. Therefore, we are at-risk if the costs of providing necessary services exceed the associated reimbursement. We are required to regularly submit service encounters to CPSA electronically. On an on-going basis and at the end of CPSA’s June 30 fiscal year, CPSA is obligated to monitor the level of service encounters. If the encounter data is not sufficient to support the year-to-date payments made to us, unless waived, CPSA has the right to prospectively reduce or suspend payments to us. For revenue recognition purposes, our service encounter value (which represents the value of actual services rendered) must equal or exceed 90% of the revenue recognized under our annual block purchase contract for the contract year. The remaining 10% of revenue recognized in each reporting period represents payment for network overhead administrative costs incurred in order to fulfill our obligations under the contract. Administrative costs include, but are not limited to, intake services, clinical liaison oversight for each behavioral health recipient, cultural liaisons, financial assessments and screening, data processing and information systems, staff training, quality and utilization management functions, coordination of care and subcontract administration. We recognize revenue from our annual block purchase contract corresponding to the service encounter value. If our service encounter value is less than 90% of the amounts received from CPSA for the contract year, unless waived, we recognize revenue equal to the service encounter value and defer revenue for any excess amounts received. CPSA has not reduced, withheld, or suspended any payments that have not been subsequently reimbursed. We believe our encounter data is sufficient to have earned all amounts recorded as revenue under this contract. 33 If our service encounter value equals 90% of the amounts received from CPSA for the contract year, we recognize revenue at the contract amount, which is one-twelfth of the established annual contract amount each month. If our service encounter value exceeds 90% of the contract amount, we recognize revenue in excess of the annual funding allocation amount if collection is reasonably assured. We evaluate factors regarding payment probability related to the determination of whether any such additional revenue over the contractual amount is considered to be reasonably assured. The terms of the contract may be reviewed prospectively and amended as necessary to ensure adequate funding of our contractual obligations; however, we cannot guarantee amendments will be completed. Our revenues under the annual block purchase contract for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009 represented approximately 6.7% of our Social Services operating segment revenues for both years. Management agreements. We maintain management agreements with a number of not-for-profit social services organizations whereby we provide certain management services for these organizations. In exchange for our services, we receive a management fee that is either based on a percentage of the revenues of these organizations or a predetermined fee. Management fees earned under our management agreements represented approximately 6.5% and 4.2% of our Social Services operating segment revenue for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively. The costs associated with generating our management fee revenue are accounted for in client service expense and in general and administrative expense in our consolidated statements of operations. NET Services segment Capitation contracts. Approximately 89% of our non-emergency transportation services revenue is generated under capitated contracts where we assume the responsibility of meeting the transportation needs of a specific geographic population. Revenues under capitation contracts with our payers result from per-member monthly fees based on the number of participants in our payer’s program. Aggregate revenue from our top five payers for the year ended December 31, 2008 and 2009 represented approximately 53% and 47%, respectively, of our NET Services operating segment revenue for such period. Fee-for-service contracts. Revenues earned under fee-for-service contracts are recognized when the service is provided. Revenue under these types of contracts is based upon contractually established billing rates less allowance for contractual adjustments. Estimates of contractual adjustments are based upon payment terms specified in the related agreements. Accounts receivable and allowance for doubtful accounts Clients are referred to us through governmental social services programs and we only provide services at the direction of a payer under a contractual arrangement. These circumstances have historically minimized any uncollectible amounts for services rendered. However, we recognize that not all amounts recorded as accounts receivable will ultimately be collected. We record all accounts receivable amounts at their contracted amount, less an allowance for doubtful accounts. We maintain an allowance for doubtful accounts at an amount we estimate to be sufficient to cover the risk that an account will not be collected. We regularly evaluate our accounts receivable, especially receivables that are past due, and reassess our allowance for doubtful accounts based on specific client collection issues. We pay particular attention to amounts outstanding for 365 days and longer. Any account receivable older than 365 days is deemed uncollectible and written off or fully reserved unless we have specific information from the payer that payment for 34 those amounts is forthcoming or other evidence which we believe supports the collection of amounts older than 365 days. In circumstances where we are aware of a specific payer’s inability to meet its financial obligation, we record a specific addition to our allowance for doubtful accounts to reduce the net recognized receivable to the amount we reasonably expect to collect. Under certain of our contracts, billings do not coincide with revenue recognized on the contract due to payer administrative issues. These unbilled accounts receivable represent revenue recorded for which no amount has been invoiced and for which we expect an invoice will not be provided to the payer within the normal billing cycle. All unbilled amounts are expected to be billed within one year. Our write-off experience for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009 was approximately 1.0% of revenue. Accounting for business combinations, goodwill and other intangible assets When we consummate an acquisition we separately value all acquired identifiable intangible assets apart from goodwill in accordance with ASC Topic 805-Business Combinations, or ASC 805. We analyze the carrying value of goodwill at the end of each fiscal year. In connection with our year-end asset impairment test, we reconcile the aggregate fair value of our reporting units to our market capitalization including a reasonable control premium. As part of this annual impairment test, we also compare the fair value of each reporting unit with its carrying value, including goodwill. If the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value, there is an indication of impairment. If an indication of impairment is identified, the impairment loss, if any, is measured by comparing the implied fair value of the reporting unit’s goodwill with its carrying value. In calculating the implied fair value of the reporting unit goodwill, the fair value of the reporting unit is allocated to all of the other assets and liabilities of that unit based on their fair values. The excess of the fair value of a reporting unit over the amount assigned to its other identifiable assets and liabilities is the implied fair value of goodwill. An impairment loss would be recognized when the carrying value of goodwill exceeds its implied fair value. Similarly conducted interim impairment tests may also be required in advance of our annual impairment test if events occur or circumstances change that would more likely than not reduce the fair value, including goodwill, of one or more of our reporting units below the reporting unit’s carrying value. Such circumstances could include but are not limited to: (1) a significant adverse change in legal factors or in the climate of our business, (2) unanticipated competition, or (3) an adverse action or assessment by a regulator. In determining whether or not we had goodwill impairment to report for the year ended December 31, 2009 and 2008, we considered both a market-based valuation approach and an income-based valuation approach when estimating the fair values of our reporting units with goodwill balances as of such dates. Under the market approach, the fair value of the reporting unit is determined using one or more methods based on current values in the market for similar businesses. Under the income approach, the fair value of the reporting unit is based on the cash flow streams expected to be generated by the reporting unit over an appropriate period and then discounting the cash flows to present value using an appropriate discount rate. The income approach is dependent on a number of significant management assumptions, including estimates of future revenue and expenses, growth rates and discount rates. Inherent in such fair value determinations are certain judgments and estimates relating to future cash flows, including our interpretation of current economic indicators and market valuations, and assumptions about our strategic plans with regard to our operations. To the extent additional information arises, market conditions change or our strategies change, it is possible that our conclusion regarding whether existing goodwill is impaired could change and result in a material effect on our consolidated financial position or results of operations. Based on the results of our asset impairment test completed as of December 31, 2009, we determined that none of our goodwill was impaired. The fair value of one of our reporting units exceeded its carrying value by approximately 3%. As of December 31, 2009, the goodwill allocated to the reporting unit was approximately $2.2 million. The assumptions used to estimate fair value were based on estimates of future revenue and expenses 35 incorporated in our current operating plans, growth rates and discounts rates, our interpretation of current economic indicators and market valuations. Significant assumptions and estimates included in our current operating plans were associated with revenue growth, profitability, and related cash flows. The discount rate used to estimate fair value was risk adjusted in consideration of the economic conditions of the reporting units. We also considered assumptions that market participants may use. By their nature, these projections and assumptions are uncertain. Potential events and circumstances that could have an adverse effect on our assumptions include the lack of sufficient funds allocated by our state and local government payers to compensate us for the level of services we currently provide or the potential increased level of service we may be required to provide in the future due to the impact of the current economic downturn, and loss of a significant contract. The fair values of our other reporting units were substantially in excess of their carrying values. Based on the results of our impairment tests completed as of September 30, 2008 (interim) and December 31, 2008 (annual), we recorded a total goodwill impairment charge for the year ended December 31, 2008 of $156.7 million, which is included in “Asset impairment charges” in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. Of this non-cash impairment charge, approximately $60.7 million was related to our Social Services operating segment and approximately $96.0 million was related to our NET Services operating segment. In connection with our acquisitions, we allocate a portion of the purchase consideration to management contracts, customer relationships, restrictive covenants, software licenses and developed technology based on the direct or indirect contribution to future cash flows on a discounted cash flow basis expected from these intangible assets over their respective useful lives. We assess whether any relevant factors limit the period over which acquired assets are expected to contribute directly or indirectly to future cash flows for amortization purposes and determine an appropriate useful life for acquired customer relationships based on the expected period of time we will provide services to the payer. While we use discounted cash flows to value intangible assets, we have elected to use the straight-line method of amortization to determine amortization expense. If applicable, we assess the recoverability of the unamortized balance of our long-lived assets based on undiscounted expected future cash flows. If the review indicates that the carrying value is not fully recoverable, the excess of the carrying value over the fair value of any long-lived asset is recognized as an impairment loss. Based on the results of our impairment tests completed as of September 30, 2008 (interim) and December 31, 2008 (annual), we recorded a total asset impairment charge related to other intangible assets for the year ended December 31, 2008 of $13.2 million, which is included in “Asset impairment charges” in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. This non-cash impairment charge includes the $11.0 million recorded with respect to our NET Services operating segment as of September 30, 2008 and the $2.2 million recorded with respect to our Social Services operating segment as of December 31, 2008. Accrued transportation costs Transportation costs are estimated and accrued in the month the services are rendered by outsourced providers utilizing gross reservations for transportation services less cancellations, and average costs per transportation service by customer contract. Average costs per contract are derived by utilizing historical cost trends. Actual costs relating to a specific accounting period are monitored and compared to estimated accruals. Adjustments to those accruals are made based on reconciliations with actual costs incurred. Accounting for management agreement relationships Due to the nature of our business and the requirement or desire by certain payers to contract with not-for-profit social services organizations, we sometimes enter into management contracts with not-for-profit social services organizations where we provide them with administrative, program and other management services. These not-for-profit organizations contract directly with state and local agencies to supply a variety of community based mental health and foster care services to children and adults. Each of these organizations is separately incorporated and organized with its own independent board of directors. 36 Our management agreements with these not-for-profit organizations typically: • • • • require us to provide management, accounting, advisory, supportive, consultative and administrative services; require us to provide the necessary resources to effectively manage the business and services provided; require that we hire, supervise and terminate personnel, review existing personnel policies and assist in adopting and implementing progressive personnel policies; and compensate us with a management fee in exchange for the services provided. All of our management services are subject to the approval or direction of the managed entities’ board of directors. We have concluded that our management agreements do not meet the provisions of ASC Topic 810, “Consolidation”, or ASC 810, thus the operations of these organizations are not consolidated with our operations. We will evaluate the impact of the provisions of ASC 810, if any, on future acquired management agreements. Loss reserves for certain reinsurance and self-funded insurance programs We reinsure a substantial portion of our general and professional liability and workers’ compensation costs under reinsurance programs through our wholly-owned subsidiary Social Services Providers Captive Insurance Company, or SPCIC. SPCIC is a licensed captive insurance company domiciled in the State of Arizona. SPCIC maintains reserves for obligations related to our reinsurance programs for our general and professional liability and workers’ compensation coverage. As of December 31, 2008 and 2009, SPCIC had reserves of approximately $3.4 million and $4.6 million, respectively, for the general and professional liability and workers’ compensation programs. In addition, Provado Insurance Services, Inc., or Provado, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Charter LCI Corporation (which, including its subsidiaries, was acquired by us in December 2007 and is referred to as LogistiCare), is a licensed captive insurance company domiciled in the State of South Carolina. Provado provides reinsurance for policies written by a third party insurer for general liability, automobile liability, and automobile physical damage coverage to various members of the network of subcontracted transportation providers and independent third parties within our NET Services operating segment. Provado maintains reserves for obligations related to the reinsurance programs for general liability, automobile liability, and automobile physical damage coverage. As of December 31, 2008 and 2009, Provado had reserves of approximately $5.0 million and $7.2 million, respectively. These reserves are reflected in our consolidated balance sheets as reinsurance liability reserves. We utilize analyses prepared by third party administrators and independent actuaries based on historical claims information with respect to the general and professional liability coverage, workers’ compensation coverage, automobile liability, and automobile physical damage to determine the amount of required reserves. We also maintain a self-funded health insurance program provided to our employees. With respect to this program, we consider historical and projected medical utilization data when estimating our health insurance program liability and related expense as well as using services of a third party administrator. As of December 31, 2008 and 2009, we had approximately $1.5 million and $1.6 million, respectively, in reserve for our self-funded health insurance programs. We continually analyze our reserves for incurred but not reported claims, and for reported but not paid claims related to our reinsurance and self-funded insurance programs. We believe our reserves are adequate. However, 37 significant judgment is involved in assessing these reserves such as assessing historical paid claims, average lags between the claims’ incurred date, reported dates and paid dates, and the frequency and severity of claims. We are at risk for differences between actual settlement amounts and recorded reserves and any resulting adjustments are included in expense once a probable amount is known. There were no significant adjustments recorded in the periods covered by this report. Any significant increase in the number of claims or costs associated with claims made under these programs above our reserves could have a material adverse effect on our financial results. Stock-based compensation We follow the fair value recognition provisions of ASC Topic 718-Compensation-Stock Compensation, or ASC 718, which requires companies to measure and recognize compensation expense for all share based payments at fair value. With respect to stock option awards, the fair value is estimated on the date of grant using the Black- Scholes-Merton option-pricing formula and amortized over the option’s vesting periods. The Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing formula requires us to make assumptions for the expected dividend yield, stock price volatility, life of options and risk-free interest rate. We adopted the requirements of ASC 718 using the modified prospective transition method in which compensation costs are recognized beginning with the effective date based on the requirements of ASC 718 for all awards granted to employees prior to the effective date of ASC 718 that remain unvested on the effective date. We follow the short-cut method prescribed by ASC 718 to calculate our pool of excess tax benefits available to absorb tax deficiencies recognized subsequent to the adoption of ASC 718, or APIC pool. There was no effect on our financial results for 2009 or 2008 related to the application of the short-cut method to determine our APIC pool balance. Under ASC 718, the benefits of tax deductions in excess of the estimated tax benefit of compensation costs recognized in the statement of operations for those options are classified as financing cash flows. For the years ended December 31, 2007 and 2009, the amount of net excess tax benefits resulting from the exercise of stock options was approximately $680,000 and $95,000 (net of approximately $45,000 in tax shortfalls resulting from the exercise of stock options), respectively. For the year ended December 31, 2008, we had a net tax shortfall resulting from the exercise of stock options of approximately $1.3 million (net of approximately $185,000 in excess tax benefits resulting from the exercise of stock options). The gross excess tax benefits resulting from the exercise of stock options are reflected as cash flows from financing activities for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009 in our consolidated statements of cash flows. Our 2006 Long-Term Incentive Plan, as amended, or 2006 Plan, allows us the flexibility to issue up to 1,800,000 shares of our common stock pursuant to awards of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, unrestricted stock, stock units including restricted stock units and performance awards to employees, directors, consultants, advisors and others who are in a position to make contributions to our success and to encourage such persons to take into account our long-term interests and the interests of our stockholders through ownership of our common stock or securities with value tied to our common stock. Foreign currency translation The financial position and results of operations of our foreign subsidiary are measured using the foreign subsidiary’s local currency as the functional currency. Revenues and expenses of this subsidiary are translated into U.S. dollars at average exchange rates prevailing during the period. Assets and liabilities are translated at the rates of exchange on the balance sheet date. The resulting translation gain and loss adjustments are recorded directly as a separate component of stockholders’ equity, unless there is a sale or complete liquidation of the underlying foreign investment. Presently, it is our intention to indefinitely reinvest the undistributed earnings of our foreign subsidiary in foreign operations. Therefore, we are not providing for U.S. or additional foreign withholding taxes on our foreign subsidiary’s undistributed earnings. Generally, such earnings become subject to U.S. tax upon the remittance of dividends and under other circumstances. It is not practicable to estimate the amount of deferred tax liability on such undistributed earnings due to the complexities of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or IRC, rules and regulations and the hypothetical nature of the calculations. 38 Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities We hold a derivative financial instrument for the purpose of hedging interest rate risk. The type of risk hedged relates to the variability of future earnings and cash flows caused by movements in interest rates applied to our floating rate long-term debt. We documented our risk management strategy and hedge effectiveness at the inception of the hedge and will continue to assess its effectiveness during the term of the hedge. We have designated the interest rate swap as a cash flow hedge under ASC Topic 815-Derivatives and Hedging, or ASC 815. Derivatives that have been designated and qualify as cash flow hedging instruments are reported at fair value. We measure hedge effectiveness by formally assessing, at least quarterly, the correlation of the expected future cash flows of the hedged item and the derivative hedging instrument. The gain or loss on the effective portion of the hedge (i.e. change in fair value) is reported as a component of other comprehensive income. The remaining gain or loss of the ineffective portion of the hedge, if any, is recognized in earnings. The fair value of the cash flow hedging instrument was a liability of approximately $1.6 million and $372,000 as of December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively, which was classified as “Current portion of interest rate swap” and “Other long-term liabilities” in our consolidated balance sheet with respect to the balance at December 31, 2008, and as “Current portion of interest rate swap” in our consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2009. Income Taxes Deferred income taxes are determined by the liability method in accordance with ASC Topic 740-Income Taxes, or ASC 740. Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes and are measured using the enacted tax rates and laws that will be in effect when the differences are expected to reverse. We record a valuation allowance which includes amounts for state and federal net operating loss carryforwards for which we have concluded that it is more likely than not that these net operating loss carryforwards will not be realized in the ordinary course of operations. We recognize interest and penalties related to income taxes as a component of income tax expense. Results of operations Segment reporting. Our operations are organized and reviewed by our chief operating decision maker along our service lines in two reportable segments (i.e., Social Services and NET Services). We operate these reportable segments as separate divisions and differentiate the segments based on the nature of the services they offer. The following describes each of our segments. Social Services Social Services includes government sponsored social services consisting of home and community based counseling, foster care and not-for-profit management services. Our operating entities within Social Services provide services to a common customer group, principally individuals and families. All of our operating entities within Social Services follow similar operating procedures and methods in managing their operations and each operating entity works within a similar regulatory environment, primarily under Medicaid regulations. We manage our operating activities within Social Services by actual to budget comparisons within each operating entity rather than by comparison between entities. Our actual operating contribution margins by operating entity within Social Services ranged from approximately 4% to 16% as of December 31, 2009. We believe that the long term operating contribution margins of our operating entities that comprise Social Services will approximate between 8% and 12% as the respective entities’ markets mature, we cross sell our services within markets, and standardize our operating model among entities including recent acquisitions. We also believe that our targeted contribution margin of approximately 10% is allowable by our state and local governmental payers over the long term. 39 Our chief operating decision maker regularly reviews financial and non-financial information for each individual entity within Social Services. While financial performance in comparison to budget is evaluated on an entity-by-entity basis, our operating entities comprising Social Services are aggregated into one reporting segment for financial reporting purposes because we believe that the operating entities exhibit similar long term financial performance. In addition, our revenues, costs and contribution margins are not significantly affected by allocating more or less resources to individual operating entities within Social Services because the economic characteristics of our business are substantially dependent upon individualized market demographics which affect the amount and type of services in demand as well as our cost structure (primarily payroll and related costs) and contract rates with payers. In conjunction with the financial performance trends, we believe the similar qualitative characteristics of the operating entities we aggregate within Social Services and budgetary constraints of our payers in each market provide a foundation to conclude that the entities that we aggregate within Social Services have similar economic characteristics. Thus, we believe the economic characteristics of our operating entities within Social Services meet the criteria for aggregation into a single reporting segment under ASC Topic 280-Segment Reporting. NET Services NET Services includes managing the delivery of non-emergency transportation services. We operate NET Services as a separate division with operational management and service offerings distinct from our Social Services operating segment. Financial and operating performance reporting is conducted at a contract level and reviewed weekly at both the operating entity level as well as the corporate level by our chief operating decision maker. Gross margin performance of individual contracts is consolidated under the associated operating entity and direct general and administrative expenses are allocated to the operating entity. The following table sets forth the percentage of consolidated total revenues represented by items in our consolidated statements of operations for the periods presented: Year Ended December 31, 2007 2008 2009 Revenues: Home and community based services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Foster care services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Management fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Non-emergency transportation services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.0% 37.3% 36.1% 4.7 9.0 2.9 7.0 55.1 8.0 4.6 1.8 57.5 Total revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.0 100.0 100.0 Operating expenses: 71.5 Client service expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.9 Cost of non-emergency transportation services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . General and administrative expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.8 Asset impairment charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . — 1.8 Depreciation and amortization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.3 36.7 51.9 51.5 7.0 5.5 24.6 — 1.6 1.8 Total operating expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.0 121.6 Operating income (loss) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.0 (21.6) Non-operating expense: Interest expense, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Income (loss) before income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Provision (benefit) for income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.6 8.4 3.4 2.7 (24.3) (1.8) 93.3 6.7 2.6 4.1 1.5 Net income (loss) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.0% (22.5)% 2.6% 40 Overview of our results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2009 Our financial results for 2009 were positively impacted by our efforts to reduce costs that included an across-the-company wage freeze, reductions in vacation, sick and holiday pay, suspension of executive salary parity recommendations for 2009 made by an independent executive compensation consultant, workforce reductions in certain operations in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, and, in selected markets, decreased use of fixed-salaried personnel in favor of hourly employees. For 2009, utilization of our education and other school-based programs increased significantly compared to the utilization levels in 2008. In addition, we saw our payer environment begin to stabilize in our social services markets in 2009 supported by the favorable reaction to the passage of the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (signed into law in February 2009), the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and a Federal court decision that permanently enjoined the State of California from making Medicaid rate reductions. With respect to our NET Services operating segment, membership increases related to new and existing contracts and negotiated rate increases throughout a number of contracts due to increased utilization, program enhancements and future projected program costs resulted in increased revenue for 2009 as compared to 2008. This coupled with lower utilization rates and membership increases under existing contracts and/or new contracts, continued and enhanced gate-keeping review process, as well as new favorable fiscal year negotiated rates for both State and HMO lines of businesses resulted in improved operating margin for 2009. In addition, our ability to gain operating efficiencies by leveraging existing infrastructure and back-office support to provide services under new contracts has also contributed to increased operating margin for 2009. Other items that significantly impacted our 2009 results of operations included a non-recurring tax benefit resulting from the true up of our 2008 income tax provision with the actual 2008 federal and state tax returns filed in 2009, savings due to reduced stock compensation and additional expenses associated with our amended credit agreement and proxy contest. Year ended December 31, 2009 compared to year ended December 31, 2008 Revenues Year Ended December 31, 2008 2009 Home and community based services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Foster care services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Management fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Non-emergency transportation services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $258,003,077 32,343,247 20,217,211 381,106,735 $289,006,655 37,283,711 14,447,586 460,275,314 Total revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $691,670,270 $801,013,266 Percent change 12.0% 15.3% -28.5% 20.8% 15.8% Home and community based services. The acquisition of AmericanWork, Inc, or AW, in September 2008 added approximately $10.8 million to home and community based services revenue for 2009 as compared to 2008. Excluding the acquisition of AW noted above, our home and community based services provided additional revenue of approximately $20.2 million for 2009 as compared to 2008. This increase was primarily due to average client volume increases during the year in new and existing locations and rate increases in certain markets for services provided. Foster care services. The acquisition of substantially all of the assets in Illinois and Indiana of Camelot Community Care, Inc., or CCC, in September 2008 added approximately $9.5 million to foster care services revenue for 2009 as compared to 2008. Partially offsetting the increase in foster care services revenue for 2009 as compared to 2008 was the impact of our exit from the foster care market in Kentucky in January 2009 and various state foster care program restructurings, which resulted in a net decrease in foster care services revenue of approximately $4.7 million. 41 Management fees. Revenue for entities we manage but do not consolidate for financial reporting purposes (managed entity revenue) decreased to $216.6 million for 2009 as compared to $242.9 million for 2008 due to the acquisition of assets from CCC (a managed entity) in September 2008 and a managed entity for which we ceased providing significant services beginning in 2009. The decrease of approximately $5.8 million in management fees for 2009 as compared to 2008 was primarily attributable to the acquisition of assets from CCC and the effect of changes made to management services arrangements with certain of our managed entities effective January 1, 2009. Non-emergency transportation services. The increase in non-emergency transportation services revenue was due to additional membership related primarily to new start-up contracts which accounted for in the aggregate approximately $46 million of additional revenue. Membership increases under existing contracts and negotiated rate increases throughout a number of contracts due to increased utilization, program enhancements and future projected program costs also contributed additional revenue. A significant portion of this revenue was generated under capitated contracts where we assumed the responsibility of meeting the transportation needs of a specific geographic population. Due to the fixed revenue stream and variable expense base structure of our NET Services operating segment, expenses related to this segment vary with seasonal fluctuations. We expect our operating results will continuously fluctuate on a quarterly basis. Operating expenses Client service expense. Client service expense included the following for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009: Year Ended December 31, 2008 2009 Payroll and related costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Purchased services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other operating expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stock-based compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $177,430,175 35,636,575 37,776,122 2,809,251 $196,570,609 34,783,887 43,606,746 165,377 Total client service expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $253,652,123 $275,126,619 Percent change 10.8% -2.4% 15.4% -94.1% 8.5% Payroll and related costs. Our payroll and related costs increased for 2009 as compared to 2008, as we added new direct care providers, administrative staff and other employees or outside contractors to support our growth. In addition, we added over 300 new employees in connection with the purchase of assets from CCC and the acquisition of AW, which resulted in an increase in payroll and related costs of approximately $8.8 million in the aggregate for 2009 as compared to 2008. We also recorded bonus expense for executive management and key employees for 2009 totaling approximately $844,000. Partially offsetting the bonus expense for 2009 as compared to 2008 was a $400,000 bonus that was paid during 2008 and charged to client services expense that was not paid in 2009. As a percentage of revenue, excluding NET Services revenue, payroll and related costs increased from 57.1% for 2008 to 57.7% for 2009 due to the bonus expense and the addition of new employees to support our growth. Purchased services. We subcontract with a network of providers for a portion of the workforce development services we provide throughout British Columbia. For 2009, use of these services decreased by approximately $2.4 million as compared to 2008. The decrease was primarily attributable to the termination of a contract in British Columbia in 2008 and the effect of imposed revenue caps. Partially offsetting the decrease in purchased services for 2009 as compared to 2008 were increases in foster parent payments amounting to approximately $1.4 million. Increases in foster parent payments were primarily attributable to the assets acquired from CCC in September 2008. As a percentage of revenue, excluding NET Services revenue, purchased services decreased from 11.5% for 2008 to 10.2% for 2009 primarily due to the effects related to our operations in British Columbia noted above. Other operating expenses. The assets acquired from CCC and the acquisition of AW in September 2008 added approximately $2.9 million to other operating expenses for 2009 as compared to 2008. Further, other 42 operating expenses such as mileage, transportation expenses, client meals, professional fees, equipment and temporary labor for 2009 increased as compared to 2008 due to the growth in the average number of clients serviced in existing markets during the year. In addition to the effect of our efforts to reduce costs generally, our operating expenses in British Columbia have decreased approximately $1.1 million primarily due to the contract termination noted above. As a percentage of revenue, excluding NET Services revenue, other operating expenses increased to 12.8% for 2009 from 12.2% for 2008 due to the growth in the average number of clients serviced in existing markets where other operating expenses incurred have increased under various cost based service contracts. Stock-based compensation. Stock-based compensation of approximately $165,000 for 2009 represents the amortization of the fair value of stock options awarded to key employees beginning in January 2009 under our 2006 Plan. All stock-based compensation expense for non-corporate employees for 2009 was expensed as part of client service expense. Of the total stock-based compensation expense of approximately $8.8 million for 2008, approximately $2.8 million was expensed as part of client service expense and the remainder as general and administrative expense. On December 30, 2008, the Compensation Committee of our board of directors, or Committee, approved the acceleration of vesting of all unvested stock-based awards outstanding on that day. The acceleration of vesting of all unvested stock-based awards in 2008 eliminated stock-based compensation expense that would have been charged in 2009 for awards granted prior to December 30, 2008 and accounted for the decrease in stock-based compensation expense for 2009 as compared to 2008. Cost of non-emergency transportation services. Payroll and related costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Purchased services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other operating expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 41,339,259 296,778,499 18,153,586 $ 49,831,942 341,976,321 23,491,549 Total cost of non-emergency transportation services . . . $356,271,344 $415,299,812 Year Ended December 31, 2008 2009 Percent change 20.5% 15.2% 29.4% 16.6% Payroll and related costs. The increase in payroll and related costs of our NET Services segment for 2009 as compared to 2008 was due to the addition of administrative staff and other employees to support our growth. In addition, approximately $661,000 of severance expense was recognized as part of key employee departures which contributed to an increase in payroll and related costs for 2009 as compared to 2008. As a percentage of NET Services revenue, payroll and related costs remained constant at 10.8% for 2008 and 2009. Purchased services. Through our NET Services operating segment we subcontract with a number of third party transportation providers to provide non-emergency transportation services to our clients. For 2009, purchased transportation costs increased due to services provided under new contracts as compared to 2008. As a percentage of NET Services revenue, purchased services decreased from approximately 77.9% for 2008 to approximately 74.3% for 2009. This decrease was attributed to lower than expected utilization relative to membership increases under existing contracts and/or new contracts, and more selective outsourcing. In addition, more favorable negotiated rates provided lower purchased services as a percent of revenue during 2009 as compared to 2008. Other operating expenses. Other operating expenses of our NET Services operating segment as a percentage of NET Services revenue increased from 4.8% for 2008 to 5.1% for 2009. The increase was primarily due to our costs associated with back-end support functions related to new contracts. 43 General and administrative expense. Year Ended December 31, 2008 2009 Percent change $48,411,826 $44,009,666 -9.1% The assets acquired from CCC and the acquisition of AW in September 2008 accounted for an increase of approximately $1.2 million in general and administrative expenses related to facilities management for 2009 as compared to 2008. Also contributing to an increase in corporate administrative expenses were arrangement, legal, accounting and other expenses related to the amended credit and guarantee agreement discussed below, legal and other fees related to the 2009 consent solicitation and 2009 proxy contest initiated by a dissident stockholder, costs related to the potential sale of assets and other expenses totaling approximately $3.3 million during 2009, as compared to only $285,000 during 2008. In addition, we recorded bonus expense in 2009 for executive management and key employees in the aggregate amount of approximately $1.9 million. The effect of this bonus accrual on general and administrative expense for 2009 as compared to 2008 was offset by bonuses that were paid to executive management during 2008 totaling $1.2 million. Offsetting the increases in general and administrative expenses for 2009 as compared to 2008 was a decrease in payroll and related costs partially due to the reduction of employees in response to renegotiated management services fees under modified management services agreements. Due to the acceleration of vesting of all unvested stock-based awards as of December 30, 2008, stock-based compensation expense that would have been charged in 2009 for awards granted prior to December 30, 2008 was eliminated. As a result, general and administrative expense for 2009 decreased by approximately $5.9 million as compared to 2008. Additional decreases in general and administrative expenses resulted from the effect of our efforts to reduce costs generally. As a percentage of revenue, general and administrative expense decreased from 7.0% for 2008 to 5.5% for 2009 due to the effect of lower incremental general and administrative expenses of our NET Services operating segment relative to its total revenue contribution and the decrease in stock-based compensation expense noted above. Asset impairment charge During 2008, we experienced a significant and sustained decline in market capitalization due to the decrease in the market price of our common stock resulting, we believe, primarily from lower than anticipated financial results during such period caused by significant changes in the climate of our business, including the uncertainty in the state payer environment and the impact of related budgetary decisions, as well as by the sharp down turn in the United States economy generally. We determined that these factors indicated an impairment loss related to goodwill as of September 30, 2008. As a result, we initiated an interim impairment analysis of the fair value of goodwill and determined that, based on this analysis, goodwill was impaired as of September 30, 2008. Accordingly, we recorded a non-cash asset impairment charge. In addition to the goodwill impairment charge for the three months ended September 30, 2008, we recorded a non-cash asset impairment charge to reduce the carrying value of customer relationships based on their estimated fair values for the same period. We performed our annual test of impairment of goodwill and an impairment analysis of other intangible assets as of December 31, 2008, based on the same triggering events that gave rise to our interim test for impairment of goodwill and determined that an additional goodwill impairment charge of approximately $26.7 million and an intangible impairment charge of approximately $2.2 million were necessary for 2008. As a result of both our interim and annual impairment tests, we recorded a total asset impairment charge related to goodwill and other intangible assets for the year ended December 31, 2008 of $169.9 million. Our evaluation of goodwill completed as of December 31, 2009 resulted in no impairment losses. 44 Depreciation and amortization. Year Ended December 31, 2008 2009 Percent change $12,721,494 $12,852,107 1.0% The increase in depreciation and amortization from period to period primarily resulted from the write-down of a management contract in the amount of approximately $458,000, partially offset by a reduction in amortization and depreciation due to the write-down of intangible assets resulting from the impairment of customer relationships in 2008 as well as fully depreciated property and equipment on which no depreciation was recognized. As a percentage of revenues, depreciation and amortization decreased from approximately 1.8% for 2008 to approximately 1.6% for 2009 due to our revenue growth, which outpaced the increase in property and equipment and the impact of lower amortization resulting from the asset impairment charge for 2008. Non-operating (income) expense Interest expense. Increased interest expense for 2009 as compared to 2008 was primarily due to accelerated amortization of deferred financing fees (related to the amendment of our credit and guarantee agreement with CIT) in the amount of approximately $348,000 and interest expense associated with the interest rate swap. We prepaid $20.0 million of our term loan debt under the credit and guaranty agreement, as amended, during the fourth quarter of 2009. The prepayment was made in two installments; the first of which, in the amount of $15.0 million, was made on October 9, 2009 and the second installment in the amount of $5.0 million was made on November 9, 2009. Our current and long-term debt obligations have decreased to approximately $204.2 million at December 31, 2009 from $237.8 million at December 31, 2008; however, effective March 11, 2009 (pursuant to the amendment to our credit and guaranty agreement), the interest rate related to our term loan increased from LIBOR plus 3.5% to LIBOR plus 6.5%. The impact of a decrease in the principal amount of our long-term debt (partially offset by an increase in the associated interest rate) resulted in a net decrease in the related interest expense from approximately $11.3 million for 2008 to approximately $10.6 million for 2009. Interest income. Interest income for 2008 and 2009 was approximately $979,000 and $366,000, respectively, and resulted primarily from interest earned on interest bearing bank and money market accounts. Provision for income taxes The provision for income taxes is based on our estimated annual effective income tax rate for the full fiscal year equal to approximately 36.6% for 2009 as compared to approximately 7.3% for 2008. Our estimated annual effective income tax rate differs from the federal statutory rate primarily due to nondeductible permanent differences, foreign taxes and state income taxes. Our effective tax rate was higher than the United States federal statutory rate of 35.0% for 2009 due primarily to state income taxes, net of federal benefit and other non-deductible expenses. These items were partially offset by total tax benefits of $1.4 million recognized during the three months ended September 30, 2009 related to the true-up of our tax provision from the filing of our 2008 United States federal and state tax returns. The $1.4 million true up was primarily attributable to reconciling our estimated liabilities using a blended state tax rate to actual state tax return amounts. At December 31, 2009, we had future tax benefits of $1.6 million related to $731,000 of available federal net operating loss carryforwards which expire in years 2011 through 2025 and $32.8 million of state net operating loss carryforwards which expire in 2012 through 2029. As a result of statutory “ownership changes” (as defined for purposes of Section 382 of the IRC), our ability to utilize our net operating losses is restricted. Our valuation allowance includes $10.8 million of state net operating loss carryforwards for which we have concluded that it is more likely than not that these net operating loss carryforwards will not be realized in the ordinary course of operations. 45 In addition, we recognized net excess tax benefits resulting from the exercise of stock options in the amount of $95,000 (net of approximately $45,000 in tax shortfalls) for the year ended December 31, 2009 and a net tax shortfall related to the exercise of stock options for the year ended December 31, 2008 in the amount of $1.3 million (net of approximately $185,000 in excess tax benefits). Year ended December 31, 2008 compared to year ended December 31, 2007 Revenues Home and community based services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Foster care services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Management fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Non-emergency transportation services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $216,582,678 25,648,163 20,069,069 22,866,709 $258,003,077 32,343,247 20,217,211 381,106,735 Year Ended December 31, 2007 2008 Percent change 19.1% 26.1% 0.7% 1566.6% Total revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $285,166,619 $691,670,270 142.5% Home and community based services. The acquisition of AW in September 2008 added approximately $3.2 million to home and community based services revenue for 2008 as compared to 2007. In addition, the acquisition of WCG International Ltd., or WCG, in August 2007, and Family & Children’s Services, Inc., or FCS, in October 2007, added, on an aggregate basis, approximately $17.8 million to home and community based services revenue for 2008 as compared to 2007. Excluding the business acquisitions noted above our home and community based services provided additional revenue of approximately $20.4 million for 2008 as compared to 2007. This increase was primarily due to the net effect of client volume increases in new and existing locations, rate increases for services provided, reductions in funding from North Carolina and Indiana, and implementation of managed care initiatives in Pennsylvania. Foster care services. The acquisition of CCC in September 2008 added approximately $2.8 million to foster care services revenue for 2008 as compared to 2007. The operations of Maple Star Oregon, or MSO, that we consolidated effective May 1, 2007 contributed approximately $4.2 million of foster care services revenue for 2008 compared to approximately $2.2 million for 2007. Our cross-selling and recruiting efforts, offset by state budget constraints and state foster care program restructuring, resulted in an increase in foster care services revenue of approximately $1.9 million for 2008 as compared to 2007. Management fees. Revenue for entities we manage but do not consolidate for financial reporting purposes (managed entity revenue) increased to $242.9 million for 2008 as compared to $225.0 million for 2007. The net increase of approximately $148,000 in management fees from 2008 and 2007 was primarily attributable to the effect of business growth of the not-for-profit entities we managed and offset by decreases in fees earned due to the acquisition and consolidation of CCC in September 2008. During 2008, British Columbia took steps to strictly enforce a contractually imposed revenue cap on a per client basis and contractually mandated pass-throughs resulting in an approximate CAD $3.0 million dispute and also provided notice of termination of one of its six provincial contracts with WCG. We are disputing these actions in accordance with the contractually mandated arbitration provision. Non-emergency transportation services. We generated all of our non-emergency transportation services revenue for 2007 and 2008 through our NET Services operating segment as a result of the acquisition of LogistiCare, in December 2007. A significant portion of this revenue is generated under capitated contracts where we assume the responsibility of meeting the transportation needs of a specific geographic population. Due to the fixed revenue stream and variable expense base structure of our NET Services operating segment, expenses related to this segment vary with seasonal fluctuations in demand for our non-emergency transportation services and, as a result, such expenses fluctuate on a quarterly basis. 46 Budgetary issues of certain state government agencies that fund our non-emergency transportation services resulted in delays in some contract implementations and awards to provide non-emergency transportation services. In addition, as the economy worsened in 2008, our NET Services operating segment experienced a higher level of utilization which resulted in higher costs to deliver transportation services for 2008. Higher fuel prices during the summer of 2008 also contributed to higher costs to deliver transportation services. Without offsetting rate increases from our payers, these higher costs resulted in lower operating margins for 2008. Operating expenses Client service expense. Client service expense included the following for the years ended December 31, 2007 and 2008: Payroll and related costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Purchased services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other operating expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stock-based compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $148,566,409 25,958,751 28,781,260 714,287 $177,430,175 35,636,575 37,776,122 2,809,251 Year Ended December 31, 2007 2008 Percent change 19.4% 37.3% 31.3% 293.3% Total client service expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $204,020,707 $253,652,123 24.3% Payroll and related costs. Our payroll and related costs increased for 2008 as compared to 2007, as we added new direct care providers, administrative staff and other employees to support our growth. In addition, we added over 300 new employees in connection with the acquisition of CCC and AW, which resulted in an increase in payroll and related costs of approximately $2.5 million in the aggregate for 2008 as compared to 2007. Further, we added over 100 new employees in connection with the acquisition of WCG and FCS, and the consolidation of MSO in May 2007, which resulted in an increase in payroll and related costs of approximately $9.0 million in the aggregate for 2008 as compared to 2007. As a percentage of revenue, excluding NET Services revenue, payroll and related costs increased from 56.6% for 2007 to 57.1% for 2008 due to the increase in the number of employees. Purchased services. Since acquiring WCG in August 2007, we subcontract with a network of providers for a portion of the workforce development services we provide throughout British Columbia. In addition, we incur a variety of other support service expenses in the normal course of placing clients in the workforce. For 2008, these services added approximately $6.7 million to purchased services as compared to 2007. Additionally, increases in foster parent payments accounted for an increase in purchased services for 2008 as compared to 2007 of approximately $3.1 million. Increases in foster parent payments are primarily attributable to the acquisition of CCC in September 2008 and the consolidation of MSO in May 2007. As a percentage of revenue, excluding NET Services revenue, purchased services increased from 9.9% for 2007 to 11.5% for 2008 primarily due to higher purchased services costs related to the operations of WCG and an increase in foster parent payments. Other operating expenses. The acquisition of CCC and AW in 2008 and WCG and FCS in 2007, and the consolidation of MSO in May 2007 added approximately $4.5 million to other operating expenses for 2008 as compared to 2007. In addition, increased client mileage and client transportation expense of approximately $1.6 million (due to the addition of new school-based programs and higher fuel costs during the summer season), and increased bad debt expense of $3.3 million also contributed to the increase in other operating expenses as compared to 2007. In certain of our Social Services markets we experienced collection issues related to delayed payments that have resulted from payer budget issues. Many of our troubled accounts receivable aged beyond 365 days during 2008 or were determined to be uncollectible. As a result, and in keeping with our allowance for doubtful accounts policy of reserving all amounts older than 365 days unless we have specific information from the payer that payment for those amounts is forthcoming or other evidence which we believe supports the collection of amounts older than 365 days, we reserved these amounts as uncollectible as of December 31, 2008, which accounted for the increase in bad debt expense for 2008 as compared to 2007. As a percentage of revenue, excluding NET Services 47 revenue, other operating expenses increased from 11.0% for 2007 to 12.2% for 2008 primarily due to the addition of new locations resulting from our organic growth, increased bad debt expense and higher costs related to the operations of CCC, AW, WCG and FCS. Stock-based compensation. Stock-based compensation of approximately $2.8 million for 2008 represents the amortization of the fair value of stock options and stock grants awarded to executive officers and employees under our 2006 Plan. In addition, the Committee approved the acceleration of vesting of all outstanding unvested stock options and restricted stock awards as of December 30, 2008. Of the total stock-based compensation expense of approximately $5.8 million related to the accelerated vesting, approximately $1.9 million was expensed as part of client service expense. Of this amount approximately $721,000 was attributable to stock-based compensation awards to certain of our executive officers. Cost of non-emergency transportation services. Payroll and related costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Purchased services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other operating expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2,292,307 16,001,192 1,276,241 $ 41,339,259 296,778,499 18,153,586 Cost of non-emergency transportation services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,569,740 $356,271,344 Year Ended December 31, 2007 2008 With the acquisition of LogistiCare in December 2007, we added over 1,000 new employees which resulted in payroll and related costs related to our NET Services operating segment of approximately $41.3 million for 2008. Through our NET Services operating segment we subcontract with a number of third party transportation providers to provide non-emergency transportation services to our clients. For 2008, purchased transportation costs amounted to approximately $296.8 million, or 77.9% of the total NET Services operating segment revenue. In addition, other operating expenses of our NET Services operating segment were approximately $18.2 million for 2008. As a percentage of NET Services revenue, the cost of non-emergency transportation services increased from 85.6% for 2007 to 93.5% for 2008. The cost of non-emergency transportation services as a percentage of NET Services revenue for 2007 reflects the impact of seasonally low costs to provide non-emergency transportation services during the holiday season relative to the revenue contribution as compared to a full year of costs for 2008 relative to revenue contribution, which accounts for most of the increase in the cost of non-emergency transportation services as a percentage of NET Services revenue from 2007 to 2008. In addition, as the economy worsened in 2008, our NET Services operating segment experienced a higher level of utilization which resulted in higher costs to deliver transportation services. Additionally, higher fuel prices during the 2008 summer season also contributed to higher costs to deliver transportation services. Without offsetting rate increases from our payers these higher costs represented a larger percentage of NET Services revenue for 2008 as compared to historical periods. General and administrative expense. Year Ended December 31, 2007 2008 Percent change $30,874,910 $48,411,826 56.8% The addition of corporate staff to adequately support our growth, increased costs to provide services under our management agreements and higher rates of pay for employees accounted for an increase of approximately $3.2 million of corporate administrative expenses for 2008 as compared to 2007. Stock-based compensation increased approximately $4.3 million from 2007, which represents the amortization of the fair value of stock options and stock grants awarded to executive officers and employees under our 2006 Plan. Stock-based compensation expense related to the accelerated vesting discussed above accounted for approximately $3.9 million of the increase from 2007. Of this amount, approximately $3.1 million was attributable to stock-based compensation awards to our executive officers and non-employee members of our board of directors. 48 Also contributing to the increase in corporate administrative expenses were legal expense, bank service charges, insurance related expenses, professional fees, and accounting fees related to LogistiCare amounting to approximately $2.9 million. In addition, as a result of our growth during 2008, rent and facilities costs increased $6.8 million for 2008 mostly due to our acquisition activities. As a percentage of revenue, general and administrative expense decreased from 10.8% for 2007 to 7.0% for 2008 due to the effect of lower incremental general and administrative expense of our NET Services operating segment relative to its total revenue contribution. Asset impairment charge During 2008, we experienced a significant and sustained decline in market capitalization due to the decrease in the market price of our common stock resulting, we believe, primarily from lower than anticipated financial results during such period caused by significant changes in the climate of our business, including the uncertainty in the state payer environment and the impact of related budgetary decisions, as well as by the sharp down turn in the United States economy generally. We determined that these factors indicated an impairment loss related to goodwill as of September 30, 2008. As a result, we initiated an interim impairment analysis of the fair value of goodwill and determined that, based on this analysis, goodwill was impaired as of September 30, 2008. Accordingly, we recorded a non-cash asset impairment charge. In addition to the goodwill impairment charge for the three months ended September 30, 2008, we recorded a non-cash asset impairment charge to reduce the carrying value of customer relationships based on their estimated fair values for the same period. We performed our annual test of impairment of goodwill and an impairment analysis of other intangible assets as of December 31, 2008, based on the same triggering events that gave rise to our interim test for impairment of goodwill and determined that an additional goodwill impairment charge of approximately $26.7 million and an intangible impairment charge of approximately $2.2 million were necessary for 2008. As a result of both our interim and annual impairment tests, we recorded a total asset impairment charge related to goodwill and other intangible assets for the year ended December 31, 2008 of $169.9 million. Depreciation and amortization. Year Ended December 31, 2007 2008 Percent change $4,989,095 $12,721,494 155.0% The increase in depreciation and amortization from period to period primarily resulted from the depreciation of property and equipment and amortization of customer relationships and developed technology related to the acquisition of WCG, FCS and LogistiCare in 2007 and CCC and AW in 2008. As a percentage of revenues, depreciation and amortization was approximately 1.8% for 2007 and 2008. Non-operating (income) expense Interest expense. Due to our acquisition of LogistiCare in December 2007, our current and long-term debt obligations were approximately $245.4 million and $237.8 million as of December 31, 2007 and 2008, respectively. Since we acquired LogistiCare in December 2007, we recorded interest expense related to our increased long-term debt for less than one month for 2007 as compared to a full twelve months for 2008. As a result, interest expense (including the amortization of deferred financing costs) for 2008 was higher than in 2007 due to a higher level of debt during 2008 as compared to 2007. Interest income. Interest income for 2008 and 2007 was approximately $979,000 and $1.5 million, respectively, and resulted primarily from interest earned on interest bearing bank and money market accounts. 49 Provision for income taxes The provision for income taxes is based on our estimated annual effective income tax rate for the full fiscal year equal to approximately 7.3% for 2008 as compared to approximately 40.3% for 2007. Our estimated annual effective income tax rate differs from the federal statutory rate primarily due to nondeductible permanent differences, foreign taxes and state income taxes. For 2008, approximately $133.2 million of the total goodwill impairment charge of approximately $156.7 million is not deductible for income tax purposes as the goodwill is related to our acquisition of the equity interest in several businesses. As a result, our effective income tax rate for 2008 decreased. At December 31, 2008, we had future tax benefits of $3.0 million related to $8.8 million of available federal net operating loss carryforwards which expire in years 2011 through 2026 and $34.8 million of state net operating loss carryforwards which expire in 2011 through 2028. As a result of statutory “ownership changes” (as defined for purposes of Section 382 of the IRC), our ability to utilize our net operating losses is restricted. Our valuation allowance includes $9.1 million of state net operating loss carryforwards for which we have concluded that it is more likely than not that these net operating loss carryforwards will not be realized in the ordinary course of operations. In addition, we recognized certain excess tax benefits in the amount of $680,000 for the year ended December 31, 2007 and a net tax shortfall related to employee stock incentive plans for the year ended December 31, 2008 in the amount of $1.3 million (net of approximately $185,000 in excess tax benefits). Quarterly results The following table presents quarterly historical financial information for the eight quarters ended December 31, 2009. The information for each of these quarters is unaudited and has been prepared on a basis consistent with our audited consolidated financial statements appearing elsewhere in this report. We believe the quarterly information contains all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, necessary to fairly present this information when read in conjunction with our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this report. Our operating results have varied on a quarterly basis and may fluctuate significantly in the future. Results of operations for any quarter are not necessarily indicative of results for a full fiscal year. Revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Operating income (loss) Net income (loss) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Earnings (loss) per share: Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diluted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Managed entity revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Management fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Operating income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Net income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Earnings per share: Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diluted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Managed entity revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Management fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quarter ended March 31, 2008 June 30, 2008 September 30, 2008 December 31, 2008 $173,664,458 10,947,477 3,704,118 $173,025,361 10,128,512 3,437,993 $ 166,997,038(2) (138,073,059)(3) (140,794,194)(3) $177,983,413(5) (32,319,618)(3)(4) (21,952,590)(3)(4) 0.30 $ $ 0.29 $ 61,462,139 5,242,427 $ 0.27 $ $ 0.27 $ 62,783,489 5,425,539 $ (11.17) $ $ (11.17) $ 61,604,956 5,537,021 $ (1.74) (1.74) $ $ $ 57,004,142(1) 4,012,224(6) $ Quarter ended March 31, 2009 June 30, 2009 September 30, 2009 December 31, 2009 $186,712,167 15,041,246 5,876,656 $191,831,944 13,974,315(8) 5,250,334 $ 206,822,781(10) 9,791,829(9) 4,447,924(7)(9) $215,646,374(10) 14,917,672 5,550,693 0.45 $ $ 0.44 $ 54,990,303 3,592,322 $ 0.40 $ $ 0.40 $ 57,408,624 3,736,046 $ 0.34 $ $ 0.34 $ 52,416,329 3,689,719 $ 0.42 $ $ 0.42 $ 51,813,241 3,429,499 $ 50 (1) Managed entity revenue represents revenues of the not-for-profit social services organizations we manage. Although these revenues are not our revenues, because we provide substantially all administrative functions for these entities and a significant portion of our management fees is based on a percentage of their revenues, we believe that the presentation of managed entity revenue provides investors with an additional measure of the size of the operations under our administration and can help them understand trends in our management fee revenue. As a result of our acquisition of substantially all of the assets in Illinois and Indiana of CCC on September 30, 2008, we began consolidating the financial results of these operations on October 1, 2008, which accounts for a decrease of approximately $2.9 million in managed entity revenue for the three months ended December 31, 2008 as compared to the three months ended September 30, 2008. (2) Revenues from our home and community based services declined approximately $6.0 million as compared to the first and second quarters of 2008 due to lower client demand for our home and community based services during the summer season. (3) Due to the significant and sustained decline in market capitalization and the uncertainty in the state payer environment as well as the impact of related budgetary decisions on our earnings during the six months ended December 31, 2008, we initiated asset impairment tests and, based on the results, we determined that a portion of our goodwill and other intangible assets were impaired and recorded an asset impairment charge for each of the three month periods ended September 30, 2008 and December 31, 2008 based on a preliminary and subsequent annual asset impairment analysis. (4) On December 30, 2008, the Committee approved the acceleration of vesting of all outstanding unvested stock options and restricted stock awards as of December 30, 2008, which resulted in an increase to stock based compensation of approximately $5.8 million for the three months ended December 31, 2008 as compared to the three months ended September 30, 2008. (5) The acquisition of CCC and AW effective September 30, 2008 added, in the aggregate, approximately $6.0 million to home and community based services and foster care services revenue for the three months ended December 31, 2008. The increase in home and community based services and foster care services revenues for the three months ended December 31, 2008 from these business acquisitions was partially offset by a seasonal decline in revenue due to lower client demand for our home and community based services during the holiday season. (6) The decline in management fees for the three months ended December 31, 2008 as compared to the three months ended September 30, 2008 was primarily due to our acquisition and consolidation of substantially all of the assets in Illinois and Indiana of CCC on September 30, 2008. (7) For the three months ended September 30, 2009, our effective tax rate was lower than the United States federal statutory rate of 35.0% due primarily to total tax benefits of $1.4 million recognized during the three months ended September 30, 2009 related to the true-up of our tax provision from the filing of our 2008 United States federal and state tax returns, partially offset by state income taxes, net of federal benefit and other non-deductible expenses. (8) Operating income for the three months ended March 31, 2009 and June 30, 2009 includes expenses related to the amendment of our credit and guarantee agreement with CIT, fees related to the 2009 consent solicitation and 2009 proxy contest and costs related to the potential sale of assets of approximately $2.0 million and $1.1 million, respectively. (9) The decrease in operating income and net income for the three months ended September 30, 2009 as compared to the three months ended June 30, 2009 was partially due to bonus expense of approximately $2.6 million recorded for executive management and key personnel. Additionally, there was a decrease of approximately $5.5 million in operating income for our social services segment for the three months ended September 30, 2009 compared to the three months ended June 30, 2009 due to lower client demand for our home and community based services during the summer season. (10) The increase in revenue during the three months ended September 30, 2009 and December 31, 2009 was partially attributable to a NET services contract that began in July 2009. The impact of this new contract resulted in an increase in non-emergency transportation services revenue of approximately $17.6 million for the three months ended September 30, 2009 and $19.1 million for the three months ended December 31, 2009. Seasonality Our quarterly operating results and operating cash flows normally fluctuate as a result of seasonal variations in our business. In our Social Services operating segment, lower client demand for our home and community based services during the holiday and summer seasons generally results in lower revenue during those periods; however, 51 our expenses related to the Social Services operating segment do not vary significantly with these changes. As a result, our Social Services operating segment experiences lower operating margins during the holiday and summer seasons. Our NET Services operating segment also experiences fluctuations in demand for our non-emergency transportation services during the summer, winter and holiday seasons. Due to higher demand in the summer months and lower demand in the winter and holiday seasons, coupled with a fixed revenue stream based on a per member per month based structure, our NET Services operating segment experiences lower operating margins in the summer season and higher operating margins in the winter and holiday seasons. We expect quarterly fluctuations in operating results and operating cash flows to continue as a result of the seasonal demand for our home and community based services and non-emergency transportation services. As we enter new markets, we could be subject to additional seasonal variations along with any competitive response by other social services and transportation providers. Liquidity and capital resources Short-term liquidity requirements consist primarily of recurring operating expenses and debt service requirements. We expect to meet these requirements through available cash, generation of cash from our operating segments, and our revolving and term loan credit facility, as amended. Sources of cash for 2009 were primarily from operations. Our balance of cash and cash equivalents was approximately $51.2 million at December 31, 2009, up from $29.4 million at December 31, 2008. Approximately $4.4 million of cash was held by WCG at December 31, 2009 and is not freely transferable without unfavorable tax consequences. We had restricted cash of approximately $13.0 million and $14.1 million at December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively, related to contractual obligations and activities of our captive insurance subsidiaries and correctional services business. At December 31, 2008 and 2009, our total debt was approximately $237.8 million and $204.2 million, respectively. Cash flows Operating activities. Net income of approximately $21.1 million plus non-cash depreciation, amortization, amortization of deferred financing costs, provision for doubtful accounts, stock-based compensation, deferred income taxes and other items of approximately $22.9 million was partially offset by the growth of our billed and unbilled accounts receivable of $10.5 million and growth of other receivables of $1.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2009. The growth of our billed and unbilled accounts receivable during the year ended December 31, 2009 was mostly due to related revenue growth. For the year ended December 31, 2009, net cash flow from operating activities totaled approximately $61.1 million. Decreases in management fees receivable resulted in an increase in cash provided by operations of approximately $542,000. Prepaid expenses and other assets decreased, which resulted in an increase in cash flow from operations of approximately $3.0 million. Changes in accounts payable, accrued expenses, accrued transportation, deferred revenue and other long-term liabilities resulted in cash provided by operating activities of $21.0 million. Reinsurance liability reserves related to our reinsurance programs increased resulting in cash provided by operating activities of approximately $4.1 million. Investing activities. Net cash used in investing activities totaled approximately $5.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2009. We collected approximately $600,000 from notes receivable during the year ended December 31, 2009 which brought our notes receivable balance to zero as of December 31, 2009. We spent approximately $3.7 million for property and equipment and we paid an additional amount of approximately $1.0 million related to our acquisition of AW to settle our obligation pursuant to the final determination of working capital we acquired in connection with this acquisition, certain tax related items and final cash payment required by the associated purchase agreement. Additionally, changes in restricted cash resulted in cash used in investing activities of approximately $1.2 million. 52 Financing activities. Net cash used in financing activities totaled approximately $34.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2009. We repaid approximately $33.5 million of long-term debt during this period, of which $20.0 million represented a voluntary prepayment on our term loan, and incurred additional deferred financing fees of approximately $802,000 primarily related to the amendment of our credit and guarantee agreement with CIT. Exchange rate change. The effect of exchange rate changes on our cash flow related to the activities of WCG for the years ended December 31, 2009 was an increase to cash of approximately $447,000. Obligations and commitments Convertible senior subordinated notes. On November 13, 2007, we issued $70.0 million in aggregate principal amount of 6.5% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014, or the Notes, under the amended note purchase agreement dated November 9, 2007 to the purchasers named therein in connection with the acquisition of LogistiCare. The proceeds of $70.0 million were used to partially fund the cash portion of the purchase price paid by us to acquire LogistiCare. The Notes are general unsecured obligations subordinated in right of payment to any existing or future senior debt including our credit facility with CIT described below. In connection with our issuance of the Notes, we entered into an Indenture between us, as issuer, and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as trustee, or the Indenture. We pay interest on the Notes in cash semiannually in arrears on May 15 and November 15 of each year. The Notes will mature on May 15, 2014. The Notes are convertible, under certain circumstances, into common stock at a conversion rate, subject to adjustment as provided for in the Indenture, of 23.982 shares per $1,000 principal amount of Notes. This conversion rate is equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $41.698 per share. On and after the occurrence of a fundamental change (as defined below), the Notes will be convertible at any time prior to the close of business on the business day before the stated maturity date of the Notes. In the event of a fundamental change as described in the Indenture, each holder of the notes shall have the right to require us to repurchase the Notes for cash. A fundamental change includes among other things: (i) the acquisition in a transaction or series of transactions of 50% or more of the total voting power of all shares our of capital stock; (ii) a merger or consolidation of our company with or into another entity, merger of another entity into our company, or the sale, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of our assets to another entity (other than to one or more of our wholly-owned subsidiaries), other than any such transaction (A) pursuant to which holders of 50% or more of the total voting power of our capital stock entitled to vote in the election of directors immediately prior to such transaction have or are entitled to receive, directly or indirectly, at least 50% or more of the total voting power of the capital stock entitled to vote in the election of directors of the continuing or surviving corporation immediately after such transaction or (B) which is effected solely to change the jurisdiction of incorporation of our company and results in a reclassification, conversion or exchange of outstanding shares of our common stock into solely shares of common stock; (iii) if, during any consecutive two-year period, individuals who at the beginning of that two-year period constituted our board of directors, together with any new directors whose election to our board of directors or whose nomination for election by our stockholders, was approved by a vote of a majority of the directors then still in office who were either directors at the beginning of such period or whose election or nomination for election was previously approved, cease for any reason to constitute a majority of our board of directors then in office; (iv) if a resolution approving a plan of liquidation or dissolution of our company is approved by our board of directors or our stockholders; and (v) upon the occurrence of a termination of trading as defined in the Indenture. The Indenture contains customary terms and provisions that provide that upon certain events of default, including, without limitation, the failure to pay amounts due under the Notes when due, the failure to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement under the Indenture, or certain defaults under other agreements or instruments, occurring and continuing, either the trustee or the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding may declare the principal of the Notes and any accrued and unpaid interest 53 through the date of such declaration immediately due and payable. Upon any such declaration, such principal, premium, if any, and interest shall become due and payable immediately. In the case of certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency relating to us or any significant subsidiary of our company, the principal amount of the Notes together with any accrued interest through the occurrence of such event shall automatically become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act of the Trustee or the holders of the Notes. Credit facility. On December 7, 2007, we entered into a Credit and Guaranty Agreement, or the Credit Agreement, with CIT Healthcare LLC, as administrative agent, Bank of America, N.A. and SunTrust Bank, as co-documentation agents, ING Capital LLC and Royal Bank of Canada, as co-syndication agents, other lenders party thereto and CIT, as sole lead arranger and bookrunner. The Credit Agreement replaced our previous credit facility with CIT Healthcare LLC. The Credit Agreement, as amended, currently provides us with a senior secured first lien credit facility in aggregate principal amount of $213.0 million comprised of a $173.0 million, six year term loan and a $30.0 million, five year revolving credit facility, or the Credit Facility. On December 7, 2007, we borrowed the entire amount available under the term loan facility and used the proceeds of the term loan to (i) fund a portion of the purchase price paid by us to acquire LogistiCare; (ii) refinance all of the then existing indebtedness under our second amended loan agreement with CIT Healthcare LLC in the amount of approximately $17.3 million; and (iii) pay fees and expenses related to the acquisition of LogistiCare and the financing thereof. The revolving credit facility must be used to (i) provide funds for general corporate purposes of our company; (ii) fund permitted acquisitions; (iii) fund ongoing working capital requirements; (iv) collateralize letters of credit; and (v) make capital expenditures. We intend to draw down on the revolving credit facility from time-to-time for these uses. The Credit Agreement contains customary representations and warranties, affirmative and negative covenants, yield protection, indemnities, expense reimbursement, material adverse change clauses, and events of default and other terms and conditions. In addition, we are required to maintain certain financial covenants under the Credit Agreement and the amendment thereto. Under the amendment to the Credit Agreement described below, we were in compliance with all financial covenants as of December 31, 2009. We are also prohibited from paying cash dividends if there is a default under the facility or if the payment of any cash dividends would result in default. On March 11, 2009, we agreed with our creditors to amend certain terms in the Credit Agreement (this amendment referred to as Amendment No. 1 to the Credit Agreement and, together with the Credit Agreement, the Amended Credit Agreement) to, among other things: • • • • • decrease the revolving credit facility from $40 million to $30 million; increase the interest rate spread on the annual interest rate from LIBOR plus 3.5% to LIBOR plus 6.5% and, with respect to Base Rate Loans (as such terms are defined in the Credit Agreement), increase the interest rate spread on the annual interest rate from Base Rate plus 2.5% to Base Rate plus 5.5% effective March 11, 2009; provided the interest rate will be adjusted upwards and we will incur a fee if certain consolidated senior leverage ratios exceed the corresponding ratio ceilings set forth in Amendment No. 1 to the Credit Agreement determined as of September 30, 2009 and December 31, 2009; amend certain financial covenants to change the requirements to a level where we met the requirements for the fourth quarter of 2008 and would likely meet the requirements for 2009; establish a new financial covenant through December 31, 2009 based upon our operations maintaining a minimum EBITDA level (as such term is defined in Amendment No. 1 to the Credit Agreement) commencing with the three months ending March 31, 2009; and require us to deliver to the lenders monthly consolidated financial statements and a 13-week rolling cash flow forecast each week from the effective date of Amendment No. 1 to the Credit Agreement to December 31, 2009. 54 In exchange for the amendments described above, we agreed to pay an amendment fee to certain lenders equal to $565,000 (0.40% of the aggregate amount of the Revolving Commitment and Term Loan outstanding related to those lenders (as such terms are defined in the Amended Credit Agreement)), which was capitalized as deferred financing fees and is included in “Other assets” in our consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2009. In addition, in connection with this transaction, we incurred fees and expenses of approximately $2.0 million, including arrangement, legal, accounting and other related costs. These fees and expenses are reflected in “General and administrative expense” in the amount of approximately $1.7 million and “Interest expense” in the amount of approximately $348,000 in our consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2009. There can be no assurances that we will be able to maintain compliance with the financial and other covenants in the Amended Credit Agreement. In the event we are unable to comply with these covenants during future periods, it is uncertain whether our creditors will grant waivers for our non-compliance. See Item 1A “Risk Factors—Our increased indebtedness may harm our financial condition and results of operations.” Under the Amended Credit Agreement the outstanding principal amount of the loans accrues interest at the per annum rate of LIBOR plus 6.5% or the Base Rate plus 5.5% at our election. We may, from time-to-time, request to convert the loan (whether borrowed under the term loan facility or the revolving credit facility) from a Base Rate Loan (subject to the per annum rate of the Base Rate plus 5.5%) to a LIBOR Loan (subject to the per annum rate of LIBOR plus 6.5%). The conversion to a LIBOR Loan may be selected for a period of one, two, three or six months with interest payable on the last day of the period selected except where a period of six months is selected by us interest is payable quarterly. If not renewed by us subject to CIT approval, the loan will automatically convert back to a Base Rate Loan at the end of the conversion period. The interest rate applied to our term loan at December 31, 2009 was 6.74%. In addition, we are subject to a 0.75% fee per annum on the unused portion of the available funds as well as other administrative fees. No amounts were borrowed under the revolving credit facility as of December 31, 2009, but the entire amount available under this facility may be allocated to collateralize certain letters of credit. As of December 31, 2008, there were five letters of credit in the amount of approximately $6.8 million and five letters of credit as of December 31, 2009 in the amount of approximately $7.3 million collateralized under the revolving credit facility. At December 31, 2008 and 2009, our available credit under the revolving credit facility was $33.2 million and $22.7 million, respectively. Our obligations under the Credit Facility are guaranteed by all of our present and future domestic subsidiaries, or the Guarantors, other than our insurance subsidiaries and not-for-profit subsidiaries. Our and each Guarantors’ obligations under the Credit Facility are secured by a first priority lien, subject to certain permitted encumbrances, on our assets and the assets of each Guarantor, including a pledge of 100% of the issued and outstanding stock of our domestic subsidiaries and 65% of the issued and outstanding stock of our first tier foreign subsidiaries. If an event of default occurs, including, but not limited to, failure to pay any installment of principal or interest when due, failure to pay any other charges, fees, expenses or other monetary obligations owing to CIT when due or particular covenant defaults, as more fully described in the Credit Agreement, the required lenders may cause CIT to declare all unpaid principal and any accrued and unpaid interest and all fees and expenses immediately due. Under the Credit Agreement, the initiation of any bankruptcy or related proceedings will automatically cause all unpaid principal and any accrued and unpaid interest and all fees and expenses to become due and payable. In addition, it is an event of default under the Credit Agreement if we default on any indebtedness having a principal amount in excess of $5.0 million. Each extension of credit under the Credit Facility is conditioned upon: (i) the accuracy in all material respects of all representations and warranties in the definitive loan documentation; and (ii) there being no default or event of default at the time of such extension of credit. Under the repayment terms of the Credit Agreement, we are obligated to repay the term loan in quarterly installments on the last day of each calendar quarter so that the following percentages of the term loan borrowed on the closing date are paid as follows: 5% in 2008, 7.5% in 2009, 10% in 2010, 12.5% in 2011, 15% in 2012 and the remaining balance in 2013. With respect to the revolving credit facility, we must repay the outstanding principal balance and any accrued but unpaid interest by December 2012. With respect to required debt repayment, our Credit Agreement with CIT requires that upon receipt of any proceeds from 55 a disposition, involuntary disposition, equity issuance, or debt issuance (as such terms are defined in the Credit Agreement) we must prepay principal then outstanding in an aggregate amount equal to 50% of such proceeds. In addition, we may at any time and from time-to-time prepay the Credit Facility without premium or penalty, provided that we may not re-borrow any portion of the term loan repaid. The Credit Facility also requires us to prepay the loan in an aggregate amount equal to 100% of the net cash proceeds of any disposition, or, to the extent the applicable net cash proceeds exceed $500,000. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if at the time of the receipt or application of such net cash proceeds no default or event of default has occurred and is continuing and we deliver to the administrative agent a certificate, executed by our chief financial officer, that we intend within three hundred sixty-five days after receipt thereof to use all or part of such net cash proceeds either to purchase assets used in the ordinary course of our business and our subsidiaries or to make capital expenditures, we may use all or part of such net cash proceeds in the manner set forth in such certificate; provided, however, that, (A) any such net cash proceeds not so used within the period set forth in such certificate shall, on the first business day immediately following such period, be applied as a prepayment and (B) any assets so acquired shall be subject to the security interests under the collateral documents in the same priority (subject to permitted liens) as the assets subject to such disposition or involuntary disposition. We agreed with CIT to subordinate our management fee receivable pursuant to management agreements established with our managed entities, which have stand-alone credit facilities with CIT Healthcare LLC, to the claims of CIT in the event one of these managed entities defaults under its credit facility. As of December 31, 2008, approximately $733,000 of our management fees receivable related to these managed entities was subject to this subordination agreement. During 2009, these entities obtained stand-alone credit facilities from other lenders and, as of December 31, 2009, none of these entities had stand-alone credit facilities with CIT Healthcare LLC. As a result, as of December 31, 2009, our management fee receivable related to these managed entities was not subject to the subordination agreement. We agreed to indemnify and hold harmless, the agents, each lender and their respective affiliates and officers, directors, employees, counsel, trustees, advisors, agents and attorneys-in-fact from and against any and all liabilities obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims, demands, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses and disbursements to which any such indemnified party may become subject arising out of or in connection with the Credit Facility or any related transaction regardless of whether any such indemnified person is a party thereto, and to reimburse each such indemnified person upon demand for any reasonable legal or other expenses incurred in connection with investigating or defending any of the foregoing, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Credit Agreement. On February 27, 2008, we entered into an interest rate swap to convert a portion of our floating rate long-term debt to fixed rate debt. The purpose of this instrument is to hedge the variability of our future earnings and cash flows caused by movements in interest rates applied to our floating rate long-term debt. We hold this derivative only for the purpose of hedging such risks, not for speculation. We entered into the interest rate swap with a notional amount of $86.5 million maturing on February 27, 2010. Under the swap agreement, we receive interest equivalent to three-month LIBOR and pay a fixed rate of interest of 3.026% with settlement occurring quarterly. Upon the expiration of the interest rate swap discussed above, we entered into a new interest rate swap effective March 11, 2010, with a notional amount of $63.4 million maturing on December 13, 2010. Under this new swap agreement, we receive interest equivalent to one-month LIBOR and pay a fixed rate of interest of .58% with settlement occurring monthly. By entering into the interest rate swap, we effectively fixed the interest rate payable by us on $63.4 million of our floating rate long-term debt at 7.08% for the period March 11, 2010 to December 13, 2010. Promissory notes. We have two unsecured, subordinated promissory notes outstanding at December 31, 2009 in connection with acquisitions completed in 2005 and 2007 in the principal amount of approximately $619,000 and $1.8 million, respectively. These promissory notes bear a fixed interest rate of between 4% and 5%, and are due in 2010. 56 Subject to our right to cure and our set off rights, failure to pay any installment of principal or interest when due or the initiation of bankruptcy or related proceedings by us related to the unsecured, subordinated promissory notes issued to the sellers in connection with the acquisitions completed in 2005 and 2007, constitutes an event of default under the promissory note provisions. If a failure to pay any installment of principal or interest when due remains uncured after the time provided by the promissory notes, the unpaid principal and any accrued and unpaid interest may become due immediately. In such event, a cross default could be triggered under the Amended Credit Agreement with CIT. In the case of bankruptcy or related proceedings initiated by us, the unpaid principal and any accrued and unpaid interest becomes due immediately. Contingent obligations. On August 13, 2007, our board of directors adopted The Providence Service Corporation Deferred Compensation Plan, or the Deferred Compensation Plan, for our eligible employees and independent contractors or a participating employer (as defined in the Deferred Compensation Plan). Under the Deferred Compensation Plan participants may defer all or a portion of their base salary, service bonus, performance- based compensation earned in a period of 12 months or more, commissions and, in the case of independent contractors, compensation reportable on Form 1099. The Deferred Compensation Plan is unfunded and benefits are paid from our general assets. As of December 31, 2009, there were seven participants in the Deferred Compensation Plan. We also maintain a 409(A) Deferred Compensation Rabbi Trust Plan for highly compensated employees of our NET Services operating segment. Benefits are paid from our general assets under this plan. As of December 31, 2009, 19 highly compensated employees participated in this plan. We may be obligated to pay an amount up to $650,000 to the sellers under an earn out provision pursuant to a formula specified in an asset purchase agreement effective July 1, 2009 by which we acquired certain assets of an entity located in California. The earn out payment as such term is defined in the asset purchase agreement, if earned, will be paid in cash. The earn out period ends on December 31, 2013. If the contingency is resolved in accordance with the related provisions of the asset purchase agreement and the additional consideration becomes distributable, we will record the fair value of the consideration issued as an additional cost to acquire the associated assets, which will be charged to earnings. Management agreements We maintain management agreements with a number of not-for-profit social services organizations that require us to provide management and administrative services for each organization. In exchange for these services, we receive a management fee that is either based upon a percentage of the revenues of these organizations or a predetermined fee. The not-for-profit social services organizations managed by us that qualify under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, referred to as a 501(c)(3) entity, each maintain a board of directors, a majority of which are independent. All economic decisions by the board of any 501(c)(3) entity that affect us are made solely by the independent board members. Our management agreements with each 501(c)(3) entity are typically subject to third party fairness opinions from an independent appraiser retained by the independent board members of the tax exempt organizations. Management fees generated under our management agreements represented 2.9% and 1.8% of our revenue for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively. In accordance with our management agreements with these not-for-profit organizations, we have obligations to manage their business and services. Management fee receivable at December 31, 2008 and 2009 totaled $7.7 million and $7.2 million, respectively, and management fee revenue was recognized on all of these receivables. In order to enhance liquidity of the entities we manage, we may allow the managed entities to defer payment of their respective management fees. In addition, since government contractors who provide social or similar services to government beneficiaries sometimes experience collection delays due to either lack of proper documentation of claims, government budgetary processes or similar reasons outside the contractors’ control (either directly or as managers of other contracting entities), we generally do not consider a management fee receivable to be uncollectible due solely to its age until it is 365 days old. 57 The following is a summary of the aging of our management fee receivable balances as of December 31, 2008 and March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31, 2009: At December 31, 2008 . . . . . . . . . March 31, 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . June 30, 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 20, 2009 . . . . . . . . . December 31, 2009 . . . . . . . . . Less than 30 days $1,143,736 $1,189,600 $1,254,508 $1,135,520 $1,018,624 30-60 days 60-90 days 90-180 days $1,071,743 $ 784,103 $ 889,063 $ 867,846 $ 857,512 $1,003,070 $ 746,446 $ 712,056 $ 772,442 $ 678,124 $3,027,380 $2,560,829 $1,933,016 $2,022,331 $2,051,679 Over 180 days $1,456,679 $2,362,554 $2,559,219 $2,601,141 $2,554,062 Each month we evaluate the solvency, outlook and ability to pay outstanding management fees of the entities we manage. If the likelihood that we will not be paid is other than remote, we defer the recognition of these management fees until we are certain that payment is probable. We have deemed payment of all of the management fee receivables to be probable based on our collection history with these entities as the long-term manager of their operations. Our days sales outstanding for our managed entities increased from 139 days at December 31, 2008 to 181 days at December 31, 2009. Reinsurance and Self-Funded Insurance Programs Reinsurance We reinsure a substantial portion of our general and professional liability and workers’ compensation costs under reinsurance programs through our wholly-owned captive insurance subsidiary, SPCIC. We also provide reinsurance for policies written by a third party insurer for general liability, automobile liability, and automobile physical damage coverage to certain members of the network of subcontracted transportation providers and independent third parties under our NET Services segment through Provado. Provado, a wholly-owned subsidiary of LogistiCare, is a licensed captive insurance company domiciled in the State of South Carolina. The decision to reinsure our risks and provide a self-funded health insurance program to our employees was made based on current conditions in the insurance marketplace that have led to increasingly higher levels of self-insurance retentions, increasing number of coverage limitations, and fluctuating insurance premium rates. SPCIC: SPCIC, which is a licensed captive insurance company domiciled in the State of Arizona, reinsures third-party insurers for general and professional liability exposures for the first dollar of each and every loss up to $1.0 million per loss and $3.0 million in the aggregate. The cumulative reserve for expected losses since inception in 2005 of this reinsurance program at December 31, 2009 was approximately $1.4 million. The excess premium over our expected losses may be used to fund SPCIC’s operating expenses, fund any deficit arising in workers’ compensation liability coverage, provide for surplus reserves, and to fund any other risk management activities. SPCIC reinsures a third-party insurer for worker’s compensation insurance for the first dollar of each and every loss up to $250,000 per occurrence with no annual aggregate limit. The cumulative reserve for expected losses since inception in 2005 of this reinsurance program at December 31, 2009 was approximately $3.2 million. Based on an independent actuarial report, our expected losses related to workers’ compensation and general and professional liability in excess of our liability under our associated reinsurance programs at December 31, 2009 was approximately $2.3 million. We recorded a corresponding asset and liability at December 31, 2009 for these expected losses, which would be paid by third-party insurers to the extent losses are incurred. We have an umbrella liability insurance policy providing additional coverage in the amount of $10.0 million in the aggregate in excess of the policy limits of the general and professional liability insurance policy and automobile liability insurance policy. 58 SPCIC had restricted cash of approximately $5.0 million at December 31, 2008 and $5.7 million at December 31, 2009, which was restricted to secure the reinsured claims losses of SPCIC under the general and professional liability and workers’ compensation reinsurance programs. The full extent of claims may not be fully determined for years. Therefore, the estimates of potential obligations are based on recommendations of an independent actuary using historical data, industry data, and our claims experience. Although we believe that the amounts accrued for losses incurred but not reported under the terms of our reinsurance programs are sufficient, any significant increase in the number of claims or costs associated with these claims made under these programs could have a material adverse effect on our financial results. Provado: Under a reinsurance agreement with a third party insurer, Provado reinsures the third party insurer for the first $250,000 of each loss for each line of coverage, subject to an annual aggregate equal to 120% of gross written premium, and certain claims in excess of $250,000 to an additional aggregate limit of $1.1 million. The cumulative reserve for expected losses of this reinsurance program at December 31, 2009 was approximately $7.2 million. The liabilities for expected losses and loss adjustment expenses are based primarily on individual case estimates for losses reported by claimants. An estimate is provided for losses and loss adjustment expenses incurred but not reported on the basis of our claim experience and claim experience of the industry. These estimates are reviewed at least annually by independent consulting actuaries. As experience develops and new information becomes known, the estimates are adjusted. Providence Liability Insurance Coverages The table below summarizes our liability insurance programs. Coverage Type Coverage Limit Reinsurance Automobile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Crime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director & Officer Liability . . . . . . . . . . . Employed Lawyers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Employment Practices Liability . . . . . . . . General & Professional Liability . . . . . . . . Umbrella . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Workers’ Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,000,000 $5,000,000 $10,000,000 $1,000,000 $3,000,000 $1,000,000 per loss; $3,000,000 aggregate $10,000,000 in excess of general and professional liability and auto liability Statutory amounts — — — — — Fully reinsured by SPCIC — Reinsured by SPCIC up to $250,000 per claim While we are insured for these types of claims, damages exceeding our insurance limits or outside our insurance coverage, such as a claim for fraud or punitive damages, could adversely affect our cash flow and financial condition. Health Insurance We offer our employees an option to participate in a self-funded health insurance program. With respect to our social services operating segment, health claims were self-funded with a stop-loss umbrella policy with a third party insurer to limit the maximum potential liability for individual claims to $150,000 per person and for a maximum potential claim liability based on member enrollment. With respect to our NET Services operating segment, we offer self-funded health insurance to our employees. Health claims under this program are self-funded with a stop- loss umbrella policy with a third party insurer to limit the maximum potential liability to $75,000 per incident and a maximum potential claim liability based on member enrollment. The aggregate maximum potential claim liability is approximately $24.7 million for our social services and NET Services operating segments. 59 Health insurance claims are paid as they are submitted to the plan administrator. We maintain accruals for claims that have been incurred but not yet reported to the plan administrator and therefore have not been paid. The incurred but not reported reserve is based on an established cap and current payment trends of health insurance claims. The liability for the self-funded health plan of approximately $1.5 million and $1.6 million as of December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2009, respectively, was recorded in “Reinsurance liability reserve” in our consolidated balance sheets. We charge our employees a portion of the costs of our self-funded group health insurance programs. We determine this charge at the beginning of each plan year based upon historical and projected medical utilization data. Any difference between our projections and our actual experience is borne by us. We estimate potential obligations for liabilities under this program to reserve what we believe to be a sufficient amount to cover liabilities based on our past experience. Any significant increase in the number of claims or costs associated with claims made under this program above what we reserve could have a material adverse effect on our financial results. Contractual cash obligations. The following is a summary of our future contractual cash obligations as of December 31, 2009: Contractual cash obligations (000’s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Debt Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Purchased services commitments . . . Capital Leases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Operating Leases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total $204,213 47,549 982 90 28,209 At December 31, 2009 Less than 1 Year $17,481 13,899 788 23 12,006 1-3 Years $41,421 23,777 50 44 12,592 3-5 Years After 5 Years $145,311 9,873 50 23 3,122 $— — 94 — 489 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $281,043 $44,197 $77,884 $158,379 $583 Future interest payments have been calculated at rates that existed as of December 31, 2009. Stock repurchase program On February 1, 2007, our board of directors approved a stock repurchase program for up to one million shares of our common stock. Since inception, we have spent approximately $10.9 million to purchase 462,500 shares of our common stock on the open market. We did not purchase shares of our common stock during 2008 and 2009. During the term of the Credit Agreement we are prohibited from purchasing shares of our common stock on the open market or in privately negotiated transactions. Liquidity matters We believe that our existing cash and cash equivalents and Amended Credit Agreement provide funds necessary to meet our operating plan for 2010. The expected operating plan for this period provides for full operation of our businesses as well as interest and projected principal payments on our debt. In addition, we are focusing on several strategic options to reduce our debt. We may access capital markets to raise equity financing for various business reasons, including required debt payments and acquisitions. The timing, term, size, and pricing of any such financing will depend on investor interest and market conditions, and there can be no assurance that we will be able to obtain any such financing. In addition, with respect to required debt payments, the Amended Credit Agreement with CIT requires that upon receipt of any proceeds from a disposition, involuntary disposition, equity issuance, or debt issuance (as defined in the Amended Credit Agreement) we must prepay principal then outstanding in an aggregate amount equal to at least 50% of such proceeds except where the disposition requires the consent of the lenders, in which case the net cash proceeds will be used to prepay outstanding principal. 60 On October 7, 2009, our board of directors authorized a total voluntary prepayment on the term loan of $20.0 million. The decision by our board of directors to authorize this prepayment was based on the substantial free cash generated by our operating activities in the first half of 2009. The prepayment was made in two installments; the first of which, in the amount of $15.0 million, was made on October 9, 2009 and the second installment in the amount of $5.0 million was made on November 9, 2009. Our operating performance for 2009 and the $20.0 million prepayment noted above improved the Company’s financial covenant ratios for 2009. The $20.0 million voluntary prepayment, in addition to regularly scheduled principal payments in the aggregate amount of $12.6 million in 2009, reduced the balance of our term loan to approximately $131.8 million at December 31, 2009. Our total long-term debt obligations at December 31, 2009 were approximately $204.2 million. In addition, our board of directors authorized an additional prepayment of $5.0 million of our term loan debt under the credit and guaranty agreement, as amended, with its creditors in January 2010. The prepayment was made on January 11, 2010. The $5.0 million voluntary prepayment, in addition to regularly scheduled principal payments in the aggregate amount of $3.6 million in the first three months of 2010, is expected to bring the balance of our term loan to approximately $123.2 million at March 31, 2010. Our total long-term debt obligations at March 31, 2010 are expected to be approximately $195.6 million. Our liquidity and financial position will continue to be affected by changes in prevailing interest rates on the portion of debt that bears interest at variable interest rates. We believe we have sufficient resources to fund our normal operations for the 12 months ending December 31, 2010. New Accounting Pronouncements ASC Topic 820-Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, or ASC 820, defines fair value and requires that the measurement thereof be determined based on the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. Additionally, ASC 820 establishes a fair value hierarchy that distinguishes between (1) market participant assumptions developed based on market data obtained from sources independent of the reporting entity and (2) the reporting entity’s own assumptions about market participant assumptions developed based on the best information available in the circumstances. ASC 820 is effective for financial assets and financial liabilities for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007. The transition guidance of ASC 820 provides that the provisions of ASC 820 relate to all nonfinancial assets and nonfinancial liabilities, except those that are recognized or disclosed at fair value in the financial statements on at least an annual basis and are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 31, 2008. We adopted ASC 820 as of January 1, 2008, with the exception of the application of this topic to non-recurring nonfinancial assets and nonfinancial liabilities. On January 1, 2009, we adopted the provisions of ASC 820 relating to non-recurring nonfinancial assets and nonfinancial liabilities. Non-recurring nonfinancial assets and nonfinancial liabilities for which we had not applied the provisions of ASC 820 prior to January 1, 2009 included those measured at fair value in goodwill impairment testing and indefinite life intangible assets measured at fair value for impairment testing. Although the adoption of ASC 820 related to financial assets and financial liabilities did not materially impact our financial condition, results of operations, or cash flow, we are required to provide additional disclosures as part of our financial statements. We have determined that there was no material impact of adopting the provisions of ASC 820 relating to non-recurring nonfinancial assets and nonfinancial liabilities on our financial condition, results of operations and cash flow. ASC 805 establishes principles and requirements for how an acquirer recognizes and measures in its financial statements the identifiable assets acquired, the liabilities assumed, any noncontrolling interest in the acquiree and the goodwill acquired. ASC 805 also establishes disclosure requirements to enable the evaluation of the nature and financial effects of the business combination. ASC 805 is effective as of the beginning of an entity’s fiscal year that begins after December 15, 2008. On January 1, 2009, we adopted ASC 805. In addition, we determined that there was no material impact of the adoption of ASC 805 on our consolidated financial results of operations and financial condition. ASC 810 establishes accounting and reporting standards for ownership interest in subsidiaries held by parties other than the parent, the amount of consolidated net income attributable to the parent and to the noncontrolling 61 interest, changes in a parent’s ownership interest and the valuation of retained noncontrolling equity investments when a subsidiary is deconsolidated. ASC 810 also establishes disclosure requirements that clearly identify and distinguish between the interest of the parent and the interests of the noncontrolling owners. ASC 810 is effective as of the beginning of an entity’s fiscal year that begins after December 15, 2008. We adopted the provisions of ASC 810 on January 1, 2009 and as a result reclassified the ownership interest in PSC (represented by the Exchangeable Shares) held by the sellers related to our acquisition of WCG of approximately $7.3 million and $7.0 million, respectively, as of December 31, 2008 and 2009, as equity. Prior to January 1, 2009, we classified this ownership interest as “Non-controlling interest” in our consolidated balance sheets. We determined that the adoption of the other provisions of ASC 810 did not have a material impact on our consolidated results of operations and financial condition. In March 2008, the FASB expanded the current disclosure framework in ASC 815. This amendment requires companies with derivative instruments to disclose information about how and why a company uses derivative instruments, how derivative instruments and related hedged items are accounted for under ASC 815, and how derivative instruments and related hedged items affect a company’s financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. The required disclosures include the fair value of derivative instruments and their gains or losses in tabular format, information about credit-risk-related contingent features in derivative agreements, counterparty credit risk, and the company’s strategies and objectives for using derivative instruments. The expanded disclosure framework provisions of ASC 815 are effective prospectively for periods beginning on or after November 15, 2008. On January 1, 2009, we adopted these provisions and determined that, other than the additional disclosures related to our interest rate swap we are now required to make, the adoption of the expanded disclosure framework in ASC 815 did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements. In April 2008, the FASB amended the factors that should be considered in developing renewal or extension assumptions used to determine the useful life of a recognized intangible asset under ASC Topic 350-Intangibles-Goodwill and Other, or ASC 350. In developing assumptions about renewal or extension used to determine the useful life of a recognized intangible asset, an entity may consider its own historical experience in renewing or extending similar arrangements; however, these assumptions should be adjusted for the entity-specific factors set forth in ASC Section 350-30-35-Determining the Useful Life of an Intangible Asset. In addition, the amendment to ASC 350 requires disclosure of information that enables users of financial statements to assess the extent to which the expected future cash flows associated with the asset are affected by the entity’s intent and/or ability to renew or extend the arrangement for a recognized intangible asset. The amended requirements of ASC 350 are effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2008, and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is prohibited. On January 1, 2009, we adopted the amended requirements of ASC 350 noted above. The adoption of these requirements did not have a material impact on our consolidated results of operations and financial condition. In June 2008, the FASB amended the guidance in ASC 815 regarding evaluating whether an instrument involving a contingency is considered indexed to an entity’s own stock. The amended guidance in ASC 815 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2008, and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early application is not permitted. Paragraph 815-10-15-74(a) of ASC 815 specifies that a contract that would otherwise meet the definition of a derivative but is both (a) indexed to the company’s own stock and (b) classified in stockholders’ equity in the statement of financial position would not be considered a derivative financial instrument. The amended guidance in ASC 815 provides a new two-step model to be applied in determining whether a financial instrument or an embedded feature is indexed to an issuer’s own stock and thus able to qualify for the scope exception provided for in paragraph ASC 815-10-15-74(a). Our 6.5% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014 (the “Notes”) are subject to the amended guidance in ASC 815 since the notes are indexed to our own stock and are convertible, under certain circumstances, into common stock at a specified conversion rate. Based on our analysis of the Notes under ASC 815 and other related guidance, we concluded that the embedded conversion option qualifies for the scope exception in paragraph ASC 815-10-15-74(a) because it is both (1) indexed to our own stock because all of the triggering conversion events are contingencies that are not based on an observable market or an observable index and that the only variables that affect the settlement amount 62 of the conversion in each case would be inputs to the fair value of a fixed-for-fixed option on equity shares as they relate to stock price and (2) would be classified in stockholders’ equity if it were a freestanding instrument. The Notes including the embedded conversion option are classified as a liability in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. ASC 815 requires issuers of convertible notes that protect holders from declines in the issuer’s stock price (“down-round” protection) to account for these instruments as derivatives. The Notes do not contain any “down-round” protection, therefore the adoption of the amended guidance in ASC 815 as of January 1, 2009 did not impact our consolidated financial statements. In April 2009, FASB amended the provisions of ASC 805 related to the initial recognition and measurement, subsequent measurement and accounting, and disclosures for assets and liabilities arising from contingencies in business combinations. No subsequent accounting guidance is provided in the amended guidance, and the FASB expects an acquirer to develop a systematic and rational basis for subsequently measuring and accounting for acquired contingencies depending on their nature. The amended provisions of ASC 805 noted above are effective for contingent assets or contingent liabilities acquired in business combinations for which the acquisition date is on or after the beginning of the first annual reporting period beginning on or after December 15, 2008. We have determined that the adoption of the amended provisions of ASC 805 did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements. On April 9, 2009, FASB provided additional guidance for estimating fair value in accordance with ASC 820 when the volume and level of activity for the asset or liability have significantly decreased. In addition, this supplemental guidance includes guidance on identifying circumstances that indicate a transaction is not orderly. Further, the supplemental guidance emphasizes that even if there has been a significant decrease in the volume and level of activity for the asset or liability and regardless of the valuation technique(s) used, the objective of a fair value measurement remains the same. The supplemental guidance in ASC 820 described above is effective for interim and annual reporting periods ending after June 15, 2009, and is to be applied prospectively. Early adoption is permitted. We adopted the supplemental guidance in ASC 820 beginning with the quarterly period ended June 30, 2009 and determined that the adoption of this guidance did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements. On April 9, 2009, FASB amended ASC Topic 825-Financial Instruments, or ASC 825, to require disclosures about fair value of financial instruments for interim reporting periods of publicly traded companies as well as in annual financial statements. This guidance also amends ASC Topic 270-Interim Reporting to require those disclosures in summarized financial information at interim reporting periods. The amended requirements of ASC 825 described above are effective for interim reporting periods ending after June 15, 2009. We adopted the amended requirements of ASC 825 beginning with the quarterly period ended June 30, 2009 and determined that, other than the additional disclosures related to the fair value of financial instruments we are now required to make, the adoption of the amended requirements of ASC 825 did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements. ASC 855-Subsequent Events, or ASC 855, establishes general standards of accounting for and disclosure of events that occur after the balance sheet date but before financial statements are issued or are available to be issued. Specifically, ASC 855 sets forth the period and circumstances during and under which an entity should evaluate events or transactions occurring after the balance sheet date for potential recognition and disclosure in the financial statements. ASC 855 also provides guidance regarding the disclosures that an entity should make about events or transactions that occurred after the balance sheet date. We adopted the provisions of ASC 855 beginning with the quarterly period ended June 30, 2009 in accordance with ASC 855’s effective date and we conducted an evaluation of the effects of subsequent events through the date on which our reports on Forms 10-Q and 10-K are filed. The adoption of ASC 855 impacts only disclosures in our consolidated financial statements. In February 2010, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update, or ASU, 2010-09-Subesequent Events (Topic 855): Amendments to Certain Recognition and Disclosure Requirements, or ASU 2010-09. The amendments in ASU 2010-09 remove the requirement for an SEC filer to disclose a date through which subsequent events have 63 been evaluated in both issued and revised financial statements. Revised financial statements include financial statements revised as a result of either correction of an error or retrospective application of GAAP. The FASB also clarified that if the financial statements have been revised, then an entity that is not an SEC filer should disclose both the date that the financial statements were issued or available to be issued and the date the revised financial statements were issued or available to be issued. The FASB believes these amendments remove potential conflicts with the SEC’s literature. All of the amendments in ASU 2010-09 were effective upon issuance except for the use of the issued date for conduit debt obligors. That amendment is effective for interim or annual periods ending after June 15, 2010. We adopted the provisions of ASU 2010-09 upon issuance. The adoption only impacted disclosures in our consolidated financial statements. In June 2009, the FASB issued ASU, 2009-01-Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or ASU 2009-01. FASB issued ASU 2009-01 (ASC Topic 105) to establish the ASC as the source of authoritative accounting principles recognized by the FASB to be applied by non-governmental entities in the preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to identify the sources of accounting principles and the framework for selecting the principles used in the preparation of financial statements of nongovernmental entities that are presented in conformity with GAAP. ASU 2009-01 does not affect the rules and interpretive releases of the SEC, which are also sources of authoritative GAAP for SEC registrants. ASU 2009-01 is effective for financial statements issued for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. We adopted the provisions of ASU 2009-01 beginning with the quarterly period ended September 30, 2009 and determined that the adoption of ASU 2009-01 did not have an impact on our consolidated financial statements because it only codifies existing non-SEC accounting literature. In August 2009, the FASB issued ASU 2009-05-Measuring Liabilities at Fair Value, or ASU 2009-05, an amendment of ASC 820. ASU 2009-05 addresses practice difficulties caused by the tension between fair value measurements based on the price that would be paid to transfer a liability to a new obligor and contractual or legal requirements that prevent such transfers from taking place. ASU 2009-05 provides clarification that in circumstances in which a quoted price in an active market for the identical liability is not available, a reporting entity is required to measure fair value using valuation techniques that incorporate: (1) the quoted price of the identical liability when the liability is traded as an asset; (2) quoted prices for similar liabilities or similar liabilities when the liabilities are traded as assets; or (3) other valuation techniques that are consistent with the principles of ASC 820 (e.g. a present value technique based on the income approach). The guidance provided in ASU 2009-05 is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after August 27, 2009. We adopted the provisions of ASU 2009-05 beginning with the quarterly period ended September 30, 2009 and determined that the adoption of ASU 2009-05 did not have an impact on our consolidated financial statements. Pending Accounting Pronouncements In October, 2009, the FASB issued ASU No. 2009-13-Revenue Recognition (Topic 605), Multiple-Deliverable Revenue Arrangements a consensus of the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force, or ASU 2009-13. ASU 2009-13 amends ASC Subtopic 650-25 to eliminate the requirement that all undelivered elements have vendor specific objective evidence, or VSOE, or third party evidence, or TPE, before an entity can recognize the portion of an overall arrangement fee that is attributable to items that already have been delivered. In the absence of VSOE or TPE of the standalone selling price for one or more delivered or undelivered elements in a multiple-element arrangement, entities will be required to estimate the selling prices of those elements. The overall arrangement fee will be allocated to each element (both delivered and undelivered items) based on their relative selling prices, regardless of whether those selling prices are evidenced by VSOE or TPE or are based on the entity’s estimated selling price. Application of the “residual method” of allocating an overall arrangement fee between delivered and undelivered elements will no longer be permitted upon adoption of ASU 2009-13. Additionally, the new guidance will require entities to disclose more information about their multiple-element revenue arrangements. The ASU is effective prospectively for revenue arrangements entered into or materially modified in fiscal years beginning on or after June 15, 2010. Early adoption is permitted. If a company elects early adoption and the period of adoption is not the beginning of its fiscal year, the requirements must be applied retrospectively to the beginning of the fiscal year. Retrospective application to prior years is an option, but is not required. In the initial year of application, companies 64 are required to make qualitative and quantitative disclosures about the impact of the changes. We are currently evaluating the potential impact, if any, of the adoption of ASU 2009-13 on our consolidated financial statements. In December 2009, the FASB issued ASU No. 2009-17-Consolidations (Topic 810): Improvements to Financial Reporting by Enterprises Involved with Variable Interest Entities, or ASU 2009-17. ASU 2009-17 amends the guidance on variable interest entities in ASC Topic 810 related to the consolidation of variable interest entities. It requires reporting entities to evaluate former qualifying special purpose entities, or QSPEs, for consolidation, changes the approach to determining a variable interest entities, or VIEs, primary beneficiary from a quantitative assessment to a qualitative assessment designed to identify a controlling financial interest, and increases the frequency of required reassessments to determine whether a company is the primary beneficiary of a VIE. It also clarifies, but does not significantly change, the characteristics that identify a VIE. This ASU requires additional year-end and interim disclosures for public and nonpublic companies that are similar to the disclosures required by ASC paragraphs 810-10-50-8 through 50-19 and 860-10-50-3 through 50-9. ASU No. 2009-17 is effective as of the beginning of each reporting entity’s first annual reporting period that begins after November 15, 2009, for interim periods within that first annual reporting period, and for interim and annual reporting period thereafter. We are currently evaluating the potential impact, if any, of the adoption of ASU 2009-17 on our consolidated financial statements. In January 2010, the FASB issued ASU 2010-06-Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures (Topic 820): Improving Disclosures about Fair Value Measurements, or ASU 2010-06. ASU 2010-06 amends certain disclosure requirements of Subtopic 820-10 and provides additional disclosures for transfers in and out of Levels I and II and for activity in Level III. This ASU also clarifies certain other existing disclosure requirements including level of desegregation and disclosures around inputs and valuation techniques. The final amendments to the ASC will be effective for annual or interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2009, except for the requirement to provide the Level 3 activity for purchases, sales, issuances, and settlements on a gross basis. That requirement will be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2010, and for interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted. ASU 2010-06 does not require disclosures for earlier periods presented for comparative purposes at initial adoption. We believe that ASU 2010-06 will not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements. In February 2010, the FASB issued ASU No. 2010-08-Technical Corrections to Various Topics, or ASU 2010-08. ASU 2010-08 is the result of the FASB’s review of its standards to determine if any provisions are outdated, contain inconsistencies, or need clarifications to reflect the FASB’s original intent. The FASB believes the amendments do not fundamentally change GAAP. However, certain clarifications on embedded derivatives and hedging (Subtopic 815-15) may cause a change in the application of that Subtopic and special transition provisions are provided for those amendments. The ASU contains various effective dates. The clarifications of the guidance on embedded derivatives and hedging (Subtopic 815-15) are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2009. The amendments to the guidance on accounting for income taxes in a reorganization (Subtopic 852-740) applies to reorganizations for which the date of the reorganization is on or after the beginning of the first annual reporting period beginning on or after December 15, 2008. All other amendments are effective as of the first reporting period (including interim periods) beginning after February 2, 2010. We do not believe that ASU 2010-08 will have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements. Other accounting standards that have been issued or proposed by the FASB or other standards setting bodies that do not require adoption until a future date are not expected to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements upon adoption. Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements contained in this report on Form 10-K, such as any statements about our confidence or strategies or our expectations about revenues, liabilities, results of operations, cash flows, ability to fund operations, profitability, ability to meet financial covenants, contracts or market opportunities, constitute forward-looking 65 statements within the meaning of section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about our business and our industry. You can identify forward-looking statements by the use of words such as “may,” “should,” “will,” “could,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” “continue,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “plans,” “expects,” “future,” and “intends” and similar expressions which are intended to identify forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained herein are not guarantees of our future performance and are subject to a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond our control and difficult to predict and could cause our actual results or achievements to differ materially from those expressed, implied or forecasted in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to the risks described under Part I Item 1A of this report. All forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained above and throughout this report. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date the statement was made. We do not intend to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk. Foreign currency translation We conduct business in Canada through our wholly-owned subsidiary WCG, and as such, our cash flows and earnings are subject to fluctuations from changes in foreign currency exchange rates. We believe that the impact of currency fluctuations does not represent a significant risk to us given the size and scope of our current international operations. Therefore, we do not hedge against the possible impact of this risk. A 10% adverse change in the foreign currency exchange rate would not have a significant impact on our consolidated results of operations or financial position. Interest rate and market risk As of December 31, 2009, we had borrowings under our term loan of approximately $131.8 million and no borrowings under our revolving line of credit. Borrowings under the Amended Credit Agreement accrued interest at LIBOR plus 6.5% per annum as of December 31, 2009. An increase of 1% in the LIBOR rate would cause an increase in interest expense of up to $3.7 million over the remaining term of the Amended Credit Agreement, which expires in 2013. We have convertible senior subordinated notes of $70 million outstanding at December 31, 2009 in connection with an acquisition completed in 2007. These notes bear a fixed interest rate of 6.5%. We have two unsecured, subordinated promissory notes outstanding at December 31, 2009 in connection with acquisitions completed in 2005 and 2007. The principal amounts of the notes approximate $619,000 and $1.8 million, respectively, as of December 31, 2009. These promissory notes bear fixed interest rates of 5% and 4%, respectively. Effective February 27, 2008, we entered into an interest rate swap with a notional amount of $86.5 million maturing on February 27, 2010. Under the swap agreement, we receive interest equivalent to three-month LIBOR and pay a fixed rate of interest of 3.026% with settlement occurring quarterly. By entering into the interest rate swap, we effectively fixed the interest rate payable by us on $86.5 million of our floating rate senior term debt at 6.526% for the period February 27, 2008 to March 10, 2009. Concurrent with the effective date of Amendment No. 1 to the Credit Agreement (March 11, 2009), the interest rate payable by us on $86.5 million of our floating rate senior term debt was fixed at 9.526% for the period March 11, 2009 to February 27, 2010. 66 Upon the expiration of the interest rate swap discussed above, we entered into a new interest rate swap effective March 11, 2010, with a notional amount of $63.4 million maturing on December 13, 2010. Under this new swap agreement, we receive interest equivalent to one-month LIBOR and pay a fixed rate of interest of .58% with settlement occurring monthly. By entering into the interest rate swap, we effectively fixed the interest rate payable by us on $63.4 million of our floating rate long-term debt at 7.08% for the period March 11, 2010 to December 13, 2010. We assess the significance of interest rate market risk on a periodic basis and may implement strategies to manage such risk as we deem appropriate. Concentration of credit risk We provide and manage government sponsored social services to individuals and families pursuant to over 1,000 contracts as of December 31, 2009. Contracts we enter into with governmental agencies and with other entities that contract with governmental agencies accounted for approximately 85% and 82% of our revenue for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively. The related contracts are subject to possible statutory and regulatory changes, rate adjustments, administrative rulings, rate freezes and funding reductions. Reductions in amounts paid under these contracts for our services or changes in methods or regulations governing payments for our services could materially adversely affect our revenue and profitability. For the year ended December 31, 2009, we conducted a portion of our operations in Canada through WCG. At December 31, 2009, approximately $13.9 million, or 22.2%, of our net assets were located in Canada. We are subject to the risks inherent in conducting business across national boundaries, any one of which could adversely impact our business. In addition to currency fluctuations, these risks include, among other things: (i) economic downturns; (ii) changes in or interpretations of local law, governmental policy or regulation; (iii) restrictions on the transfer of funds into or out of the country; (iv) varying tax systems; (v) delays from doing business with governmental agencies; (vi) nationalization of foreign assets; and (vii) government protectionism. We intend to continue to evaluate opportunities to establish additional operations in Canada. One or more of the foregoing factors could impair our current or future operations and, as a result, harm our overall business. 67 Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data. INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 2008 and 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 For the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009: Consolidated Statements of Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity and Comprehensive Income (Loss) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 68 Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting Our management has the responsibility for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting for the registrant, as such term is defined in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Rule 13a-15(f). Under the supervision and with the participation of our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, we conducted an assessment, as of December 31, 2009, of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting based on the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission in Internal Control–Integrated Framework. We designed our internal control over financial reporting to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Our internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements. All internal control systems, no matter how well designed, have inherent limitations. Therefore, even those systems determined to be effective can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to financial statement preparation and presentation. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate. Based on our assessment, we concluded our internal control over financial reporting is effective as of December 31, 2009. KPMG LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, which audited our consolidated financial statements included in this report on Form 10-K has issued an attestation report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. KPMG LLP’s attestation report is also included in this report on Form 10-K. 69 Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm The Board of Directors and Stockholders The Providence Service Corporation: We have audited The Providence Service Corporation’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2009, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework, issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. The Providence Service Corporation’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying management’s annual report on internal control over financial reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the effectiveness of The Providence Service Corporation’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audit also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements. Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate. In our opinion, The Providence Service Corporation maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2009, based on criteria established in Internal Control— Integrated Framework, issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the consolidated balance sheets of The Providence Service Corporation and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and comprehensive income (loss), and cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2009, and our report dated March 12, 2010 expressed an unqualified opinion on those consolidated financial statements. /s/ KPMG LLP Phoenix, Arizona March 12, 2010 70 Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm The Board of Directors and Stockholders The Providence Service Corporation: We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of The Providence Service Corporation and subsidiaries (the Company) as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and comprehensive income (loss), and cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2009. In connection with our audits of the consolidated financial statements, we have also audited the financial statement schedules contained in Item 15(a)(2). These consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedules are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedules based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of The Providence Service Corporation and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2009, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, the related financial statement schedules, when considered in relation to the consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, present fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein. As discussed in note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, effective January 1, 2008, the Company adopted the disclosure provisions of SFAS No. 157, Fair Value Measurements (included in FASB ASC Topic 320, Investments-Debt and Equity Securities). We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2009, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework, issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, and our report dated March 12, 2010 expressed an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. /s/ KPMG LLP Phoenix, Arizona March 12, 2010 71 Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm To the Board of Directors The Providence Service Corporation and Subsidiaries Tucson, Arizona We have audited the accompanying consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and comprehensive income (loss) and cash flows of The Providence Service Corporation and Subsidiaries for the year ended December 31, 2007. Our audit also included the financial statement schedules for the year ended December 31, 2007 of The Providence Service Corporation and Subsidiaries contained in Item 15(a)(2). These financial statements and financial statement schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the results of operations and cash flows of The Providence Service Corporation and Subsidiaries for the year ended December 31, 2007, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, the related financial statement schedule for the year ended December 31, 2007, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, present fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein. /s/ McGladrey & Pullen, LLP Phoenix, Arizona March 13, 2008 72 The Providence Service Corporation Consolidated Balance Sheets December 31, 2008 2009 Assets Current assets: Cash and cash equivalents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accounts receivable—billed, net of allowance of $3.4 million in 2008 and $2.9 million in 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accounts receivable—unbilled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Management fee receivable(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other receivables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Notes receivable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Restricted cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prepaid expenses and other(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deferred tax assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total current assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Property and equipment, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Notes receivable, less current portion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Goodwill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Intangible assets, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Restricted cash, less current portion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 29,364,247 $ 51,157,429 72,617,418 423,817 7,702,608 3,148,970 467,682 7,803,808 15,377,639 4,757,535 141,663,724 11,983,368 132,159 112,770,566 81,555,587 5,207,132 12,350,697 $ 365,663,233 80,458,245 329,577 7,160,001 4,118,213 — 8,153,610 12,439,613 3,558,034 167,374,722 11,166,272 — 113,672,945 73,963,261 5,941,924 10,987,542 $ 383,106,666 Liabilities and stockholders’ equity Current liabilities: Current portion of long-term obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accounts payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accrued expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accrued transportation costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deferred revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Current portion of interest rate swap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reinsurance liability reserve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total current liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Long-term obligations, less current portion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other long-term liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deferred tax liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Commitments, contingencies and subsequent events (Notes 15, 18 and 20) Stockholders’ equity Common stock: Authorized 40,000,000 shares; $0.001 par value; 13,462,356 and 13,521,959 issued and outstanding (including treasury shares) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Additional paid-in capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Retained deficit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accumulated other comprehensive loss, net of tax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Treasury shares, at cost, 619,768 shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total Providence stockholders’ equity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total stockholders’ equity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Non-controlling interest $ 14,264,925 3,004,608 27,232,740 32,051,325 3,375,231 1,431,036 8,846,910 90,206,775 223,493,680 3,975,278 10,096,297 327,772,030 $ 17,480,918 4,010,560 33,389,729 40,907,527 8,347,258 372,408 12,644,670 117,153,070 186,732,342 5,143,322 11,740,340 320,769,074 13,462 169,698,598 (123,253,836) (4,449,547) (11,383,967) 30,624,710 7,266,493 37,891,203 $ 365,663,233 13,522 170,551,301 (102,128,229) (1,675,572) (11,383,967) 55,377,055 6,960,537 62,337,592 $ 383,106,666 (1) (2) Includes related party management fee receivable of approximately $448,000 and $281,000 at December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively. Includes related party prepaid travel expenses of approximately $108,000 at December 31, 2009. See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements 73 The Providence Service Corporation Consolidated Statements of Operations Year ended December 31, 2007 2008 2009 Revenues: Home and community based services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Foster care services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Management fees(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Non-emergency transportation services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $216,582,678 25,648,163 20,069,069 22,866,709 $ 258,003,077 32,343,247 20,217,211 381,106,735 $289,006,655 37,283,711 14,447,586 460,275,314 285,166,619 691,670,270 801,013,266 Operating expenses: Client service expense(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cost of non-emergency transportation services . . . . . . . . . . . . General and administrative expense(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Asset impairment charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Depreciation and amortization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204,020,707 19,569,740 30,874,910 — 4,989,095 253,652,123 356,271,344 48,411,826 169,930,171 12,721,494 275,126,619 415,299,812 44,009,666 — 12,852,107 Total operating expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259,454,452 840,986,958 747,288,204 Operating income (loss) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other (income) expense: 25,712,167 (149,316,688) 53,725,062 Interest expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interest income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,071,537 (1,470,025) 19,578,404 (978,877) Income (loss) before income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Provision (benefit) for income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,110,655 9,721,981 (167,916,215) (12,311,542) 20,798,250 (365,853) 33,292,665 12,167,058 Net income (loss) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 14,388,674 $(155,604,673) $ 21,125,607 Earnings (loss) per common share: Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diluted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ $ 1.21 1.19 $ $ (12.42) $ (12.42) $ 1.61 1.60 Weighted-average number of common shares outstanding: Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diluted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,865,402 12,047,121 12,531,869 12,531,869 13,130,092 13,211,393 (1) (2) Includes related party management fees of approximately $393,000, $509,000 and $292,000 for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. Includes related party expenses of approximately $363,000, $321,000 and $119,000 for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements 74 0 0 5 , 9 5 1 5 , 6 4 3 , 2 1 ) 4 5 6 , 4 1 7 ( ) 7 1 7 , 6 8 8 , 0 1 ( 7 6 3 , 3 9 0 , 1 4 7 6 , 8 8 3 , 4 1 1 4 0 , 2 8 4 , 5 1 ) 0 6 7 , 4 2 1 ( 5 3 4 , 0 6 7 , 8 9 3 6 , 8 0 3 , 8 8 1 ) 8 3 6 , 3 4 8 ( 0 6 4 , 3 2 2 , 2 — — 4 5 6 , 4 1 7 ) 1 9 0 , 1 9 9 ( ) 3 2 8 , 1 5 5 , 4 ( ) 3 7 6 , 4 0 6 , 5 5 1 ( ) 7 8 5 , 7 4 1 , 1 6 1 ( 1 7 0 , 2 0 3 3 0 2 , 1 9 8 , 7 3 — 6 3 7 , 4 4 2 1 2 1 , 0 2 8 4 5 8 , 3 5 9 , 1 7 0 6 , 5 2 1 , 1 2 2 8 5 , 9 9 8 , 3 2 6 4 9 , 8 4 6 , 7 6 4 9 , 8 4 6 , 7 ) 0 9 6 , 3 7 ( 3 3 7 , 3 3 0 , 3 6 1 6 , 6 0 4 , 2 9 4 3 , 6 5 0 , 9 5 1 $ — — — $ ) 6 4 7 , 8 9 2 ( $ 5 0 9 , 6 4 1 — — — — ) 4 4 7 , 3 7 ( 1 2 6 , 2 l a t o T t s e r e t n I t n u o m A s e r a h S g n i l l o r t n o C - n o N k c o t S y r u s a e r T — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — ) 7 1 7 , 6 8 8 , 0 1 ( 0 0 5 , 2 6 4 d e t a l u m u c c A r e h t O e v i s n e h e r p m o C e m o c n I ) s s o L ( d e n i a t e R i s g n n r a E ) t i c i f e D ( n o m m o C k c o t S n o i t p i r c s b u S e l b a v i e c e R l a n o i t i d d A n I - d i a P l a t i p a C t n u o m A s e r a h S k c o t S n o m m o C — — — — — — — — — — 7 6 3 , 3 9 0 , 1 $ 3 6 1 , 2 6 9 , 7 1 $ — — — — — — — — — 4 7 6 , 8 8 3 , 4 1 — — — — — — — — — — ) 4 5 6 , 4 1 7 ( — — 6 1 6 , 6 0 4 , 2 9 0 6 , 3 3 0 , 3 — 4 5 4 2 1 — — 8 6 4 , 4 5 6 4 5 , 3 2 1 — 8 0 1 , 6 4 3 , 2 1 7 0 4 1 5 2 , 7 0 4 0 0 5 , 9 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — $ 1 6 7 , 0 8 3 , 1 4 1 $ 1 7 1 , 2 1 $ 7 2 1 , 1 7 1 , 2 1 n o i t a r o p r o C e c i v r e S e c n e d i v o r P e h T ) s s o L ( e m o c n I e v i s n e h e r p m o C d n a y t i u q E ’ s r e d l o h k c o t S f o s t n e m e t a t S d e t a d i l o s n o C 6 5 7 , 2 1 2 9 3 , 6 5 7 , 2 1 — 5 4 6 , 7 6 5 4 0 5 , 3 3 g n i d u l c n i s n o i t p o k c o t s e e y o l p m e f o e s i c r e x E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 0 0 , 0 8 6 $ f o t i f e n e b x a t . . . d e u s s i k c o t s d e t c i r t s e R . p r o C e g n a h c x E a d a n a C f o C S P f o e c n a u s s I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . s e r a h s — e g n a h c x e & n o i t a l l e c n a c n o i t p o k c o t S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . n o i t a s n e p m o c d e s a b k c o t S 6 0 0 2 , 1 3 r e b m e c e D t a e c n a l a B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e r a c i t s i g o L n o i t u b i r t n o c l a t i p a C . . e s a h c r u p e r k c o t S t n e m t s u j d a n o i t a l s n a r t y c n e r r u c n g i e r o F e l b a v i e c e r n o i t p i r c s b u s k c o t s n o m m o C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e m o c n i t e N e m o c n i e v i s n e h e r p m o c l a t o T n o i t a s n e p m o c d e s a b - k c o t S 7 0 0 2 , 1 3 r e b m e c e D t a e c n a l a B d l e h h t i w / d e u s s i k c o t s d e t c i r t s e R . . . . . . n o i l l i m 3 . 1 $ f o l l a f t r o h s x a t e m o c n i g n i d u l c n i s n o i t p o k c o t s e e y o l p m e f o e s i c r e x E s r e b m e m r e m r o f o t d e u s s i k c o t s d e r e t s i g e r n U 75 2 9 5 , 7 3 3 , 2 6 $ 7 3 5 , 0 6 9 , 6 $ ) 7 6 9 , 3 8 3 , 1 1 ( $ 8 6 7 , 9 1 6 ) 2 7 5 , 5 7 6 , 1 ( $ ) 9 2 2 , 8 2 1 , 2 0 1 ( $ — $ 1 0 3 , 1 5 5 , 0 7 1 $ 2 2 5 , 3 1 $ 9 5 9 , 1 2 5 , 3 1 s t n e m e t a t s l a i c n a n i f d e t a d i l o s n o c e h t o t s e t o n g n i y n a p m o c c a e e S — — — — — — — — ) 3 5 4 , 2 8 3 ( — ) 0 6 7 , 4 2 1 ( — 2 4 7 , 7 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — ) 1 9 0 , 1 9 9 ( ) 3 2 8 , 1 5 5 , 4 ( — — — — — — — — — ) 3 7 6 , 4 0 6 , 5 5 1 ( — — ) 6 5 9 , 5 0 3 ( — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 1 2 1 , 0 2 8 4 5 8 , 3 5 9 , 1 — — — — — 7 0 6 , 5 2 1 , 1 2 3 9 4 , 6 6 2 , 7 ) 7 6 9 , 3 8 3 , 1 1 ( 8 6 7 , 9 1 6 ) 7 4 5 , 9 4 4 , 4 ( ) 6 3 8 , 3 5 2 , 3 2 1 ( — — — — — — 4 5 6 , 4 1 7 — — — — — — — — — 6 4 9 , 8 4 6 , 7 ) 7 0 2 , 9 5 2 , 1 1 ( 6 2 0 , 2 1 6 7 6 3 , 3 9 0 , 1 7 3 8 , 0 5 3 , 2 3 ) 4 5 6 , 4 1 7 ( ) 2 1 ( — — — — ) 7 6 5 ( 5 3 4 , 0 6 7 , 8 4 9 5 , 6 7 1 , 9 5 1 ) 2 7 6 , 3 4 8 ( 9 3 4 , 2 8 3 1 8 3 , 3 2 2 , 2 1 7 0 , 2 0 3 8 8 6 , 4 4 2 4 4 9 , 5 0 3 — — — 7 6 5 — 4 3 9 7 4 1 2 1 — — — — 8 4 2 1 — — — 8 9 5 , 8 9 6 , 9 6 1 2 6 4 , 3 1 6 5 3 , 2 6 4 , 3 1 — — 0 4 7 , 8 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . C L L . , t n e m e g a n a M D W f o 9 7 3 , 4 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . d e g n a h c x e s e r a h s . p r o C e g n a h c x E a d a n a C f o C S P — — — — 6 9 6 , 1 1 3 0 5 , 1 1 — — — . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . — e g n a h c x e d n a n o i t a l l e c n a c n o i t p o k c o t S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e r a c i t s i g o L e l b a v i e c e r n o i t p i r c s b u s k c o t s n o m m o C f o t e n , e v i t a v i r e d f o e u l a v r i a f n i e g n a h C . . . . . . 1 4 2 , 3 5 6 $ f o t i f e n e b x a t e m o c n i s t n e m t s u j d a n o i t a l s n a r t y c n e r r u c n g i e r o F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . s s o l t e N s s o l e v i s n e h e r p m o c l a t o T n o i t a s n e p m o c d e s a b - k c o t S 8 0 0 2 , 1 3 r e b m e c e D t a e c n a l a B , s n o i t p o k c o t s e e y o l p m e f o e s i c r e x E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . d e g n a h c x e t c a p m i d n a e v i t a v i r e d f o e u l a v r i a f n i e g n a h C s e r a h s . p r o C e g n a h c x E a d a n a C f o C S P . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . f o x a t e m o c n i f o t e n , n o i t a n g i s e d - e d f o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2 9 , 3 4 5 $ s t n e m t s u j d a n o i t a l s n a r t y c n e r r u c n g i e r o F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e m o c n i t e N e m o c n i e v i s n e h e r p m o c l a t o T 9 0 0 2 , 1 3 r e b m e c e D t a e c n a l a B 0 0 1 , 8 4 . . . . . 8 6 0 , 5 9 $ f o t i f e n e b x a t t e n g n i d u l c n i The Providence Service Corporation Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows Operating activities Net income (loss) Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . operating activities: Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amortization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amortization of deferred financing costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Provision for doubtful accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deferred income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stock based compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Excess tax benefit upon exercise of stock options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Asset impairment charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of effects of acquisitions: Billed and unbilled accounts receivable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Management fee receivable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other receivables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Restricted cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reinsurance liability reserve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prepaid expenses and other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accounts payable and accrued expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accrued transportation costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deferred revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other long-term liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Net cash provided by operating activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Investing activities Purchase of property and equipment, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Acquisition of businesses, net of cash acquired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Acquisition of management agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Acquisition earnout payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Restricted cash for contract performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Purchase of short-term investments, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Advances to related parties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Collection of notes receivable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Net cash used in investing activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Financing activities Repurchase of common stock, for treasury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Proceeds from common stock issued pursuant to stock option exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Excess tax benefit upon exercise of stock options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Proceeds from long-term debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repayment of long-term debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Debt financing costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Capital lease payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Year ended December 31, 2007 2008 2009 $ 14,388,674 $(155,604,673) $ 21,125,607 1,577,675 3,411,420 291,529 702,071 (501,657) 2,406,616 (680,115) — 100,000 (944,952) (3,594,613) (157,394) — 1,165,655 (823,048) 9,146,327 (6,292,737) (1,991,172) — 4,505,214 8,216,280 2,698,184 4,084,333 (14,553,560) 8,760,435 (184,908) 169,930,171 27,878 4,689,709 8,162,398 2,979,515 4,479,094 2,299,614 302,071 (140,312) — 109,212 (9,276,794) (2,364,483) (417,295) (214,098) 2,621,087 (5,828,653) (6,680,776) 7,474,815 (702,259) (104,912) (10,542,465) 542,357 (1,109,999) 112,043 4,114,560 3,005,629 7,046,947 8,856,202 4,885,641 183,519 18,204,279 12,385,986 61,101,342 (1,949,038) (233,876,782) — (8,299,460) (1,287,401) (320,368) (2,533,882) 685,435 (4,664,007) (3,597,766) (418,462) (6,670,655) 2,506,353 (185,515) — 3,291,943 (3,699,385) (1,037,650) (100,000) — (1,196,637) (194,304) — 599,841 (247,581,496) (9,738,109) (5,628,135) (10,960,461) (124,760) — 2,363,172 680,115 243,000,000 (332,379) (10,887,536) — 469,320 184,908 — 149,667 140,312 — (8,650,000) (88,775) (1,012) (33,545,345) (802,329) (69,413) Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223,862,911 (8,210,319) (34,127,108) Effect of exchange rate changes on cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190,221 (451,956) 447,083 Net change in cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cash at beginning of period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (5,324,085) 40,702,730 (6,014,398) 35,378,645 21,793,182 29,364,247 Cash at end of period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 35,378,645 $ 29,364,247 $ 51,157,429 See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements 76 The Providence Service Corporation Supplemental Cash Flow Information Year ended December 31, 2007 2008 2009 Supplemental cash flow information Cash paid for interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cash paid for income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Note receivable issued for management fees receivable . . . . . . . . . . . . Note payable obtained to finance prepaid insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stock issued to former members of WD Management, L.L.C. . . . . . . . PSC of Canada Exchange Corp. shares exchanged . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Change in fair value of derivative and impact of de-designation . . . . . $ $ $ $ $ $ $ 1,377,676 $16,773,008 $17,789,734 9,222,405 $ 4,177,798 $ 7,066,871 299,917 $ — $ — $ 989,925 — $ 2,223,460 — $ 382,453 $ $ $ — — — 305,956 — $ (991,091) $ 820,121 Business acquisitions: Purchase price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Costs of acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Less: $251,536,092 6,998,826 $ 8,900,000 599,291 $ 29,478 213,193 Notes payable issued for acquisition of business . . . . . . . . . . Common stock issued for acquisition of business . . . . . . . . . Exchangeable shares of subsidiary issued for acquisition of business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cash (received) paid for working capital adjustment . . . . . . Amount due to former shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Credit for indebtedness of management fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cash acquired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1,800,000) (12,346,515) (7,648,946) — — — (2,862,675) — — — (479,716) (525,000) (4,827,425) (69,384) — — — 269,979 525,000 — — Acquisition of business, net of cash acquired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $233,876,782 $ 3,597,766 $ 1,037,650 See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements 77 The Providence Service Corporation Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements December 31, 2009 1. Description of Business and Summary of Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates Description of Business The Providence Service Corporation (the “Company”) is a government outsourcing privatization company. The Company operates in the following two segments: Social Services and Non-Emergency Transportation Services (“NET Services”). As of December 31, 2009, the Company operated in 43 states, and the District of Columbia, United States, and British Columbia, Canada. The Social Services operating segment responds to governmental privatization initiatives in adult and juvenile justice, corrections, social services, welfare systems, education and workforce development by providing home- based and community-based counseling services and foster care services to at-risk families and children. These services are purchased primarily by state, county and city levels of government, and are delivered under block purchase, cost based and fee-for-service arrangements. The Company also contracts with not-for-profit organizations to provide management services for a fee. The NET Services operating segment provides non-emergency transportation management services, primarily to Medicaid beneficiaries. The entities that pay for non-emergency medical transportation services primarily include state Medicaid programs, health maintenance organizations and commercial insurers. Most of the Company’s non-emergency medical transportation services are delivered under capitated contracts where the Company assumes the responsibility of meeting the transportation needs of a specific geographic population. Seasonality The Company’s quarterly operating results and operating cash flows normally fluctuate as a result of seasonal variations in its business. In the Company’s Social Services operating segment, lower client demand for its home and community based services during the holiday and summer seasons generally results in lower revenue during those periods; however, the Company’s expenses related to the Social Services operating segment do not vary significantly with these changes. As a result, the Company’s Social Services operating segment experiences lower operating margins during the holiday and summer seasons. The Company’s NET Services operating segment also experiences fluctuations in demand for its non-emergency transportation services during the summer, winter and holiday seasons. Due to higher demand in the summer months and lower demand in the winter and holiday seasons, coupled with a fixed revenue stream based on a per member per month base structure, the Company’s NET Services operating segment experiences lower operating margins in the summer season and higher operating margins in the winter and holiday seasons. The Company expects quarterly fluctuations in operating results and operating cash flows to continue as a result of the seasonal demand for its home and community based services and non-emergency transportation services. As the Company enters new markets, it could be subject to additional seasonal variations along with any competitive response by other social services and transportation providers. Principles of Consolidation The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and all of its subsidiaries, including its foreign wholly-owned subsidiary WCG International Ltd. (“WCG”). All intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. 78 Basis of Presentation The Company follows accounting standards set by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”). The FASB establishes accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”) that the Company follows. Rules and interpretive releases of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) under authority of federal securities laws are also sources of authoritative GAAP for SEC registrants, which the Company is required to follow. References to GAAP issued by the FASB in these footnotes are to the FASB Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”), which serves as a single source of authoritative non-SEC accounting and reporting standards to be applied by nongovernmental entities. The FASB finalized the ASC effective for periods ending on or after September 15, 2009. Prior FASB standards like FASB Statement of Accounting Standards and FASB Staff Positions are no longer being issued by the FASB. For further discussion of the ASC, see “FASB Codification Discussion” in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations elsewhere in this report. Liquidity Matters On March 11, 2009, the Company entered into an amendment to the credit and guaranty agreement with its creditors to, among other things, change the financial covenant requirements to address its liquidity concerns related to the Company’s ability to meet its financial covenant obligations related to its long-term debt for the three months ended December 31, 2008 and year ended December 31, 2009. Accordingly, the Company met the financial covenant requirements under the amended credit and guaranty agreement for the three months ended December 31, 2008 and was in compliance with these requirements as of December 31, 2009. The amendment provisions are more fully described in note 9 below. The Company’s board of directors (“Board”) authorized a prepayment of $20.0 million of the Company’s term loan debt under the credit and guaranty agreement, as amended, with its creditors in October 2009. The prepayment was made in two installments; the first of which, in the amount of $15.0 million, was made on October 9, 2009 and the second installment in the amount of $5.0 million was made on November 9, 2009. The Company’s operating performance for 2009 and the $20.0 million prepayment noted above improved the Company’s financial covenant ratios for 2009. In addition, the Board authorized an additional prepayment of $5.0 million of the Company’s term loan debt under the credit and guaranty agreement, as amended, with its creditors in January 2010. The additional prepayment was made on January 11, 2010. The Company believes that it will meet the financial covenant requirements for 2010 and that the Company has sufficient resources to fund its normal operations for the year ending December 31, 2010. Foreign Currency Translation The financial position and results of operations of WCG are measured using WCG’s local currency (Canadian Dollar) as the functional currency. Revenues and expenses of WCG have been translated into U.S. dollars at average exchange rates prevailing during the period. Assets and liabilities have been translated at the rates of exchange on the balance sheet date. The resulting translation gain and loss adjustments are recorded directly as a separate component of stockholders’ equity. At present and for the foreseeable future, the Company intends to reinvest any undistributed earnings of its foreign subsidiary in foreign operations. As a result, the Company is not providing for U.S. or additional foreign withholding taxes on its foreign subsidiary’s undistributed earnings. Generally, such earnings become subject to U.S. tax upon the remittance of dividends and under certain other circumstances. It is not practicable to estimate the amount of unrecognized deferred tax liability for temporary differences that are essentially permanent in duration on such undistributed earnings. 79 Cash Equivalents Cash and cash equivalents include all cash balances and highly liquid investments with an initial maturity of three months or less. Investments in cash equivalents are carried at cost, which approximates fair value. The Company places its temporary cash investments with high credit quality financial institutions. At times such investments may be in excess of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC) insurance limits. At December 31, 2009, approximately $4.4 million of cash was held by WCG and is not freely transferable without unfavorable tax consequences between the Company and WCG. Restricted Cash The Company had approximately $13.0 million and $14.1 million of restricted cash at December 31, 2008 and 2009 as follows: December 31, 2008 2009 Collateral for letters of credit—Contractual obligations . . . . . . . Contractual obligations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 175,000 898,844 $ 418,000 786,801 Subtotal restricted cash for contractual obligations . . . . . . . Collateral for letters of credit—Reinsured claims losses . . . . . . . Escrow—Reinsured claims losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,073,844 3,311,000 8,626,096 1,204,801 4,041,000 8,849,733 Subtotal restricted cash for reinsured claims losses . . . . . . . 11,937,096 12,890,733 Total restricted cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Less current portion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,010,940 7,803,808 14,095,534 8,153,610 $ 5,207,132 $ 5,941,924 Of the restricted cash amount at December 31, 2008 and 2009: • • • • • $175,000 and $418,000 served as collateral for irrevocable standby letters of credit that provide financial assurance that the Company will fulfill certain contractual obligations; approximately $899,000 and $787,000 was held to fund the Company’s obligations under arrangements with various governmental agencies through the correctional services business acquired by the Company in 2006 (“Correctional Services”); approximately $3.3 million and $4.0 million served as collateral for irrevocable standby letters of credit to secure any reinsured claims losses under the Company’s general and professional liability and workers’ compensation reinsurance programs and was classified as noncurrent assets in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets; approximately $1.6 million was restricted and held in trust for reinsurance claims losses under the Company’s general and professional liability reinsurance program; and approximately $7.0 million and $7.2 million was restricted in relation to the services provided by a captive insurance subsidiary (acquired by the Company in connection with the acquisition of Charter LCI Corporation in 2007). At December 31, 2009, approximately $4.5 million, $1.7 million, $6.9 million and $250,000 of the restricted cash was held in custody by the Bank of Tucson, Wells Fargo, Fifth Third Bank and Bank of America. The cash is restricted as to withdrawal or use and is currently invested in certificates of deposit or short-term marketable securities. The remaining balance of approximately $787,000 is also restricted as to withdrawal or use, and is currently held in various non-interest bearing bank accounts related to Correctional Services. 80 Short-Term Investments As part of its cash management program, the Company from time to time maintains short-term investments. These investments have a term to earliest maturity of less than one year and are comprised of certificates of deposit. These investments are carried at cost, which approximates market and are classified as “Prepaid expenses and other” in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities The Company holds a derivative financial instrument for the purpose of hedging interest rate risk. The type of risk hedged relates to the variability of future earnings and cash flows caused by movements in interest rates applied to the Company’s floating rate long-term debt. The Company documented its risk management strategy and hedge effectiveness at the inception of the hedge and will continue to assess its effectiveness during the term of the hedge. The Company has designated the interest rate swap as a cash flow hedge under ASC Topic 815-Derivatives and Hedging (“ASC 815”). Derivatives that have been designated and qualify as cash flow hedging instruments are reported at fair value. The Company measures hedge effectiveness by formally assessing, at least quarterly, the correlation of the expected future cash flows of the hedged item and the derivative hedging instrument. The gain or loss on the effective portion of the hedge (i.e. change in fair value) is reported as a component of other comprehensive loss. The remaining gain or loss of the ineffective portion of the hedge, if any, is recognized in earnings. The fair value of the cash flow hedging instrument was a liability of approximately $1.6 million and $372,000 as of December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively, which was classified as “Current portion of interest rate swap” and “Other long-term liabilities” in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet with respect to the balance at December 31, 2008 and as “Current portion of interest rate swap” in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2009. Concentration of Credit Risk Contracts with governmental agencies and other entities that contract with governmental agencies accounted for approximately 79%, 85% and 82% of the Company’s revenue for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. The related contracts are subject to possible statutory and regulatory changes, rate adjustments, administrative rulings, rate freezes and funding reductions. Reductions in amounts paid under these contracts for the Company’s services or changes in methods or regulations governing payments for the Company’s services could materially adversely affect its revenue and profitability. For the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, the Company conducted a portion of its operations in Canada through WCG. At December 31, 2008 and 2009, approximately $11.3 million, or 29.7%, and $13.9 million, or 22.2%, of the Company’s net assets, respectively, were located in Canada. Additionally, approximately $13.3 million, or 4.7%, $28.0 million, or 4.0%, and $22.5 million, or 2.8%, of the Company’s consolidated revenue for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively, was generated from the Company’s Canadian operations. The Company is subject to the risks inherent in conducting business across national boundaries, any one of which could adversely impact its business. In addition to currency fluctuations, these risks include, among other things: (i) economic downturns; (ii) changes in or interpretations of local law, governmental policy or regulation; (iii) restrictions on the transfer of funds into or out of the country; (iv) varying tax systems; (v) delays from doing business with governmental agencies; (vi) nationalization of foreign assets; and (vii) government protectionism. The Company intends to continue to evaluate opportunities to establish additional operations in Canada. One or more of the foregoing factors could impair the Company’s current or future operations and, as a result, harm its overall business. 81 Fair Value of Financial Instruments The carrying amounts of cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, accounts receivable, notes receivable, management fee receivable and accounts payable approximate their fair value because of the relatively short-term maturity of these instruments. The fair value of the Company’s long-term obligations is estimated based on interest rates for the same or similar debt offered to the Company having same or similar remaining maturities and collateral requirements. The carrying amount of the long-term obligations approximates its fair value. Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts Clients are referred to the Company through governmental social services programs and it only provides services at the direction of a payer under a contractual arrangement. These circumstances have historically minimized any uncollectible amounts for services rendered. However, the Company recognizes that not all amounts recorded as accounts receivable will ultimately be collected. The Company records all accounts receivable amounts at their contracted amount, less an allowance for doubtful accounts. The Company maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts at an amount it estimates to be sufficient to cover the risk that an account will not be collected. The Company regularly evaluates its accounts receivable, especially receivables that are past due, and reassesses its allowance for doubtful accounts based on specific client collection issues. The Company pays particular attention to amounts outstanding for 365 days and longer. Any account receivable older than 365 days is generally deemed uncollectible and written off or fully reserved unless the Company has specific information from the payer that payment for those amounts is forthcoming or has other evidence which the Company believes supports that amounts older than 365 days will be collected. In circumstances where the Company is aware of a specific payer’s inability to meet its financial obligation, the Company records a specific addition to its allowance for doubtful accounts to reduce the net recognized receivable to the amount the Company reasonably expects to collect. Under certain of the Company’s contracts, billings do not coincide with revenue recognized on the contract due to payer administrative issues. These unbilled accounts receivable represent revenue recorded for which no amount has been invoiced and for which the Company expects an invoice will not be provided to the payer within the normal billing cycle. Unbilled amounts are considered current when billed, which generally occurs within one year from the date of service. The Company’s write-off experience for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009 was approximately 2%, 1% and 1%, respectively, of the Company’s revenue. Property and Equipment Property and equipment are stated at historical cost, or at fair value if acquired by acquisition. Depreciation is provided using the straight-line method over the estimated useful life of the assets. Maintenance and repairs are charged to expense when they are incurred. Upon the disposition of any asset, its accumulated depreciation is deducted from the original cost, and any gain or loss is reflected in operating expense. Impairment of Long-Lived Assets Goodwill The Company analyzes the carrying value of goodwill at the end of each fiscal year and between annual valuations if events occur or circumstances change that would more likely than not reduce the fair value of the reporting unit below its carrying value. Such circumstances could include, but are not limited to: (1) a significant adverse change in legal factors or in business climate, (2) unanticipated competition, or (3) an adverse action or assessment by a regulator. In connection with its analysis of the carrying value of goodwill, the Company reconciles the aggregate fair value of its reporting units to the Company’s market capitalization including a reasonable control 82 premium. When determining whether goodwill is impaired, the Company compares the fair value of the reporting unit to which the goodwill is assigned to the reporting unit’s carrying amount, including goodwill. If the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value, then the amount of the impairment loss must be measured. The impairment loss would be calculated by comparing the implied fair value of reporting unit goodwill to its carrying amount. In calculating the implied fair value of the reporting unit goodwill, the fair value of the reporting unit is allocated to all of the other assets and liabilities of that unit based on their fair values. The excess of the fair value of a reporting unit over the amount assigned to its other assets and liabilities is the implied fair value of goodwill. An impairment loss would be recognized when the carrying amount of goodwill exceeds its implied fair value. The Company’s annual evaluation of goodwill completed as of December 31, 2009 resulted in no impairment loss. Intangible assets subject to amortization The Company separately values all acquired identifiable intangible assets apart from goodwill. The Company allocated a portion of the purchase consideration to management contracts, customer relationships, restrictive covenants, software licenses and developed technology acquired in the years 2006—2008 based on the expected direct or indirect contribution to future cash flows on a discounted cash flow basis over the useful life of the assets. The Company assesses whether any relevant factors limit the period over which acquired assets are expected to contribute directly or indirectly to future cash flows for amortization purposes. With respect to acquired management contracts, the useful life is limited by the stated terms of the agreements. The Company determines an appropriate useful life for acquired customer relationships based on the expected period of time it will provide services to the payer. While the Company uses discounted cash flows to value the acquisition of intangible assets, the Company has elected to use the straight-line method of amortization to determine amortization expense. If applicable, the Company assesses the recoverability of the unamortized balance of its long-lived assets based on undiscounted expected future cash flows. Should this analysis indicate that the carrying value is not fully recoverable, the excess of the carrying value over the fair value of any intangible asset is recognized as an impairment loss. Accrued Transportation Costs Transportation costs are estimated and accrued in the month the services are rendered by outsourced providers utilizing gross reservations for transportation services less cancellations and average costs per transportation service by customer contract. Average costs per contract are derived by utilizing historical cost trends. Actual costs relating to a specific accounting period are monitored and compared to estimated accruals. Adjustments to those accruals are made based on reconciliations with actual costs incurred. Accrued transportation costs amounted to approximately $32.1 million and $40.9 million at December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively. Deferred Financing Costs The Company capitalizes expenses incurred in connection with its long-term debt obligations and amortizes them over the term of the respective debt agreements. The Company incurred approximately $10.6 million in deferred financing costs in connection with the credit facility with its senior creditor entered into in December 2007 and the amendment to the credit facility in March 2009, as described in note 9 below. In addition, the Company incurred approximately $2.3 million in deferred financing costs in connection with its senior subordinated notes issued in November 2007. Deferred financing costs are amortized to interest expense on a straight-line basis or the effective interest method over the term of the credit facility. Deferred financing costs, net of amortization, totaling approximately $9.7 million and $7.5 million at December 31, 2008 and 2009, are included in “Other assets” in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. Revenue Recognition The Company recognizes revenue at the time services are rendered at predetermined amounts stated in its contracts and when the collection of these amounts is considered to be reasonably assured. 83 At times the Company may receive funding for certain services in advance of services actually being rendered. These amounts are reflected in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets as deferred revenue until the actual services are rendered. As services are rendered, documentation is prepared describing each service, time spent, and billing code under each contract to determine and support the value of each service provided. This documentation is used as a basis for billing under the Company’s contracts. The billing process and documentation submitted under its contracts vary among payers. The timing, amount and collection of the Company’s revenues under these contracts are dependent upon its ability to comply with the various billing requirements specified by each payer. Failure to comply with these requirements could delay the collection of amounts due to the Company under a contract or result in adjustments to amounts billed. The performance of the Company’s contracts is subject to the condition that sufficient funds are appropriated, authorized and allocated by each state, city or other local government. If sufficient appropriations, authorizations and allocations are not provided by the respective state, city or other local government, we are at risk of immediate termination or renegotiation of the financial terms of the Company’s contracts. Social Services segment Fee-for-service contracts. Revenues related to services provided under fee-for-service contracts are recognized as revenue at the time services are rendered and collection is determined to be probable. Such services are provided at established billing rates. Cost based service contracts. Revenues from the Company’s cost based service contracts are recorded based on a combination of direct costs, indirect overhead allocations, and stated contractual margins on those incurred costs. These revenues are compared to annual contract budget limits and, depending on reporting requirements, allowances may be recorded for certain contingencies such as projected costs not incurred, excess cost per service over the allowable contract rate and/or insufficient encounters. This policy results in recognizing revenue from these contracts based on allowable costs incurred. The annual contract amount is based on projected costs to provide services under the contracts with adjustments for changes in the total contract amount. The Company annually submits projected costs for the coming year, which assist the contracting payers in establishing the annual contract amount to be paid for services provided under the contracts. After the contracting payers’ year end, the Company submits cost reports which are used by the contracting payers to determine the amount, if any, by which funds paid to the Company for services provided under the contracts were greater than the allowable costs to provide these services. Completion of this review process may range from one month to several years from the date the Company submits the cost report. In cases where funds paid to the Company exceed the allowable costs to provide services under contract, the Company may be required to pay back the excess funds. The Company’s cost reports are routinely audited by payers on an annual basis. The Company periodically reviews its provisional billing rates and allocation of costs and provides for estimated adjustments from the contracting payers. The Company believes that adequate provisions have been made in its consolidated financial statements for any adjustments that might result from the outcome of any cost report audits. Differences between the amounts provided and the settlement amounts, which historically have not been material, are recorded in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations in the year of settlement. Annual block purchase contract. The Company’s annual block purchase contract with CPSA requires it to provide or arrange for behavioral health services to eligible populations of beneficiaries as defined in the contract. The Company must provide a complete range of behavioral health clinical, case management, therapeutic and administrative services. The Company is obliged to provide services only to those clients with a demonstrated medical necessity. The annual funding allocation amount is subject to increase when the Company’s encounters exceed the contract amount; however, such increases in the annual funding allocation amount are subject to government appropriation and may not be approved. There is no contractual limit to the number of eligible 84 beneficiaries that may be assigned to the Company, or a specified limit to the level of services that may be provided to these beneficiaries if the services are deemed to be medically necessary. Therefore, the Company is at-risk if the costs of providing necessary services exceed the associated reimbursement. The Company is required to regularly submit service encounters to CPSA electronically. On an on-going basis and at the end of CPSA’s June 30 fiscal year, CPSA is obligated to monitor the level of service encounters. If the encounter data is not sufficient to support the year-to-date payments made to the Company, unless waived, CPSA has the right to prospectively reduce or suspend payments to the Company. For revenue recognition purposes, the Company’s service encounter value (which represents the value of actual services rendered) must equal or exceed 90% of the revenue recognized under its annual block purchase contract for the contract year. The remaining 10% of revenue recognized in each reporting period represents payment for network overhead administrative costs incurred in order to fulfill the Company’s obligations under the contract. Administrative costs include, but are not limited to, intake services, clinical liaison oversight for each behavioral health recipient, cultural liaisons, financial assessments and screening, data processing and information systems, staff training, quality and utilization management functions, coordination of care and subcontract administration. The Company recognizes revenue from its annual block purchase contract corresponding to the service encounter value. If the Company’s service encounter value is less than 90% of the amounts received from CPSA for the contract year, unless waived, the Company recognizes revenue equal to the service encounter value and defers revenue for any excess amounts received. CPSA has not reduced, withheld, or suspended any payments that have not been subsequently reimbursed. The Company believes its encounter data is sufficient to have earned all amounts recorded as revenue under this contract. If the Company’s service encounter value equals 90% of the amounts received from CPSA for the contract year, the Company recognizes revenue at the contract amount, which is one-twelfth of the established annual contract amount each month. If the Company’s service encounter value exceeds 90% of the contract amount, the Company recognizes revenue in excess of the annual funding allocation amount if collection is reasonably assured. The Company evaluates factors such as cash receipt and written confirmation regarding payment probability related to the determination of whether any such additional revenue over the contractual amount is considered to be reasonably assured. The terms of the contract may be reviewed prospectively and amended as necessary to ensure adequate funding of the Company’s contractual obligations, however, we cannot guaranty that amendments will be completed. Management agreements. The Company maintains management agreements with a number of not-for-profit social services organizations whereby it provides certain management services for these organizations. In exchange for the Company’s services, the Company receives a management fee that is either based on a percentage of the revenues of these organizations or a predetermined fee. The Company recognizes management fees revenue from its management agreements as such amounts are earned, as defined by the respective management agreements, and collection of such amount is considered reasonably assured. The Company assesses the likelihood of whether any of its management fees may need to be returned to help the Company’s managed entities fund their working capital needs. If the likelihood is other than remote, the Company defers the recognition of all or a portion of the management fees received. To the extent the Company defers management fees as a means of funding any of its managed entities’ losses from operations, such amounts are not recognized as management fees revenue until they are ultimately collected from the operating income of the managed entities. The costs associated with generating the Company’s management fee revenue are accounted for in client service expense and in general and administrative expense in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. 85 NET Services segment Capitation contracts. Approximately 89% of the Company’s non-emergency transportation services revenue is generated under capitated contracts where the Company assumes the responsibility of meeting the transportation needs of a specific geographic population. Revenues under capitation contracts with the Company’s payers result from per-member monthly fees based on the number of participants in its payer’s program. Fee-for-service contracts. Revenues earned under fee-for-service contracts are recognized when the service is provided. Revenues under these types of contracts are based upon contractually established billing rates less allowance for contractual adjustments. Estimates of contractual adjustments are based upon payment terms specified in the related agreements. Non-Controlling Interest In connection with the Company’s acquisition of WCG in August 2007, PSC of Canada Exchange Corp. (“PSC”), a subsidiary established by the Company to facilitate the purchase of all of the equity interest in WCG, issued 287,576 exchangeable shares as part of the purchase price consideration. The exchangeable shares were valued at approximately $7.8 million in accordance with the provisions of the purchase agreement ($7.6 million for accounting purposes). For accounting purposes, the value of the exchangeable shares issued by PSC was determined based upon the product of the average market price for the Company’s common stock for the five trading days ended August 3, 2007 of $26.59 and 287,576 shares issued. The shares are exchangeable at each shareholder’s option, for no additional consideration, into shares of the Company’s common stock on a one-for-one basis (“Exchangeable Shares”). Of the 287,576 Exchangeable Shares, 25,882 were exchanged as of December 31, 2009. The Exchangeable Shares are non-participating such that they are not entitled to any allocation of income or loss of PSC. The Exchangeable Shares represent ownership in PSC and are accounted for as “Non-controlling interest” included in stockholders’ equity in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets at December 31, 2008 and 2009. In accordance with the provisions of ASC Topic 810-Consolidation (“ASC 810”) as they relate to non-controlling interest in consolidated financial statements (adopted by the Company on January 1, 2009), the Company reclassified the ownership interest in PSC (represented by the Exchangeable Shares) held by the WCG sellers of approximately $7.3 million and $7.0 million, respectively, as of December 31, 2008 and 2009, as equity. Prior to January 1, 2009, the Company classified this ownership interest as “Non-controlling interest” included in liabilities and stockholders’ equity in its consolidated balance sheets. The Exchangeable Shares and the 25,882 shares of the Company’s common stock issued upon the exchange of the same number of Exchangeable Shares noted above are subject to a Settlement and Indemnification Agreement dated November 17, 2009 (“Indemnification Agreement”) by and between the Company and the sellers of WCG. The Indemnification Agreement secures the Company’s claims for indemnification and associated rights and remedies provided by the Share Purchase Agreement (under which the Company acquired all of the equity interest in WCG on August 1, 2007) arising from actions taken by British Columbia to strictly enforce a contractually imposed revenue cap on a per client basis and contractually mandated pass-throughs subsequent to August 1, 2007. The actions taken by British Columbia resulted in an approximate CAD $3.0 million dispute and termination of one of its six provincial contracts with WCG, which the Company is disputing. Under the Indemnification Agreement, the sellers have agreed to transfer their rights to the Exchangeable Shares and 25,882 shares of the Company’s common stock issued upon the exchange of the same number of Exchangeable Shares to the Company to indemnify the Company against any losses suffered by the Company as the result of an unfavorable ruling upon the conclusion of arbitration. Stock-Based Compensation The Company follows the fair value recognition provisions of ASC Topic 718-Compensation-Stock Compensation (“ASC 718”), which requires companies to measure and recognize compensation expense for all share based payments at fair value. 86 Other Comprehensive Loss Other comprehensive loss is defined as the change in equity of a business during a period from transactions and other events and circumstances from non-owner sources, including foreign currency translation adjustments. Other comprehensive loss was derived from foreign currency translation adjustments and the change in fair value of the Company’s interest rate swap (as more fully described in note 10 below). The components of the ending balances of accumulated other comprehensive loss are as follows: Cumulative foreign currency translation adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unrealized losses on cash flow derivative hedges, net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $(3,458,456) (991,091) $(1,504,602) (170,970) $(4,449,547) $(1,675,572) December 31, 2008 2009 Income Taxes Deferred income taxes are determined by the liability method in accordance with ASC Topic 740-Income Taxes (“ASC 740”). Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes and are measured using the enacted tax rates and laws that will be in effect when the differences are expected to reverse. The Company records a valuation allowance which includes amounts for state net operating loss carryforwards, as more fully described in note 17 below, for which the Company has concluded that it is more likely than not that these net operating loss carryforwards will not be realized in the ordinary course of operations. The Company recognizes interest and penalties related to income taxes as a component of income tax expense. Loss Reserves for Certain Reinsurance and Self-funded Insurance Programs The Company reinsures a substantial portion of its general and professional liability and workers’ compensation costs under reinsurance programs though the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary Social Services Providers Captive Insurance Company (“SPCIC”). SPCIC is a licensed captive insurance company domiciled in the State of Arizona. SPCIC maintains reserves for obligations related to the Company’s reinsurance programs for its general and professional liability and workers’ compensation coverage. As of December 31, 2008 and 2009, the Company had reserves of approximately $3.4 million and $4.6 million, respectively, for the general and professional liability and workers’ compensation programs. In addition, Provado Insurance Services, Inc., (“Provado”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Charter LCI Corporation that was acquired by the Company in December 2007, is a licensed captive insurance company domiciled in the State of South Carolina. Provado provides reinsurance for policies written by a third party insurer for general liability, automobile liability, and automobile physical damage coverage to various members of the network of subcontracted transportation providers and independent third parties within the Company’s NET Services operating segment. Provado maintains reserves for obligations related to the reinsurance programs for general liability, automobile liability, and automobile physical damage coverage. As of December 31, 2008 and 2009, Provado had reserves of approximately $5.0 million and $7.2 million, respectively. These reserves are reflected in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets as reinsurance liability reserves. The Company utilizes analyses prepared by third party administrators and independent actuaries based on historical claims information with respect to the general and professional liability coverage, workers’ compensation coverage, automobile liability, automobile physical damage, and health insurance coverage to determine the amount of required reserves. 87 The Company also maintains a self-funded health insurance program provided to its employees. With respect to this program, the Company considers historical and projected medical utilization data when estimating its health insurance program liability and related expense. As of December 31, 2008 and 2009, the Company had approximately $1.5 million and $1.6 million, respectively, in reserve for its self-funded health insurance programs. The Company continually analyzes its reserves for incurred but not reported claims, and for reported but not paid claims related to its reinsurance and self-funded insurance programs. The Company believes its reserves are adequate. However, significant judgment is involved in assessing these reserves such as assessing historical paid claims, average lags between the claims’ incurred date, reported dates and paid dates, and the frequency and severity of claims. The Company is at risk for differences between actual settlement amounts and recorded reserves and any resulting adjustments are included in expense once a probable amount is known. There were no significant adjustments recorded in the periods covered by this report. Any significant increase in the number of claims or costs associated with claims made under these programs above the Company’s reserves could have a material adverse effect on its financial results. Critical Accounting Estimates The Company has made a number of estimates relating to the reporting of assets and liabilities, revenues and expenses and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities to prepare these consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP. The Company based its estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions the Company believes to be reasonable under the circumstances. However, actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. Some of the more significant estimates impact revenue recognition, accounts receivable and allowance for doubtful accounts, accounting for business combinations, goodwill and other intangible assets, accrued transportation costs, accounting for management agreement relationships, loss reserves for reinsurance and self-funded insurance programs, stock-based compensation, foreign currency translation, derivative instruments and hedging activities and income taxes. New Accounting Pronouncements ASC Topic 820-Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures (“ASC 820”) defines fair value and requires that the measurement thereof be determined based on the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. Additionally, ASC 820 establishes a fair value hierarchy that distinguishes between (1) market participant assumptions developed based on market data obtained from sources independent of the reporting entity and (2) the reporting entity’s own assumptions about market participant assumptions developed based on the best information available in the circumstances. ASC 820 is effective for financial assets and financial liabilities for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007. The transition guidance of ASC 820 provides that the provisions of ASC 820 relate to all nonfinancial assets and nonfinancial liabilities, except those that are recognized or disclosed at fair value in the financial statements on at least an annual basis and are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 31, 2008. The Company adopted ASC 820 as of January 1, 2008, with the exception of the application of this topic to non-recurring nonfinancial assets and nonfinancial liabilities, which was subsequently adopted by the Company on January 1, 2009. Non-recurring nonfinancial assets and nonfinancial liabilities for which the Company had not applied the provisions of ASC 820 prior to January 1, 2009 included those measured at fair value in goodwill impairment testing and indefinite life intangible assets measured at fair value for impairment testing. Although the adoption of ASC 820 related to financial assets and financial liabilities did not materially impact its financial condition, results of operations, or cash flow, the Company is required to provide additional disclosures as part of its financial statements. The Company has determined that there was no material impact of adopting the provisions of ASC 820 relating to non-recurring nonfinancial assets and nonfinancial liabilities on its financial condition, results of operations and cash flow. ASC Topic 805-Business Combinations (“ASC 805”) establishes principles and requirements for how an acquirer recognizes and measures in its financial statements the identifiable assets acquired, the liabilities assumed, 88 any noncontrolling interest in the acquiree and the goodwill acquired. ASC 805 also establishes disclosure requirements to enable the evaluation of the nature and financial effects of the business combination. ASC 805 is effective as of the beginning of an entity’s fiscal year that begins after December 15, 2008. On January 1, 2009, the Company adopted ASC 805. In addition, the Company determined that there was no material impact of the adoption of ASC 805 on its consolidated financial results of operations and financial condition. ASC 810 establishes accounting and reporting standards for ownership interest in subsidiaries held by parties other than the parent, the amount of consolidated net income attributable to the parent and to the noncontrolling interest, changes in a parent’s ownership interest and the valuation of retained noncontrolling equity investments when a subsidiary is deconsolidated. ASC 810 also establishes disclosure requirements that clearly identify and distinguish between the interest of the parent and the interests of the noncontrolling owners. ASC 810 is effective as of the beginning of an entity’s fiscal year that begins after December 15, 2008. The Company adopted the provisions of ASC 810 on January 1, 2009 and as a result reclassified the ownership interest in PSC (represented by the Exchangeable Shares) held by the sellers related to the Company’s acquisition of WCG of approximately $7.3 million and $7.0 million, respectively, as of December 31, 2008 and 2009, as equity. Prior to January 1, 2009, the Company classified this ownership interest as “Non-controlling interest” in its consolidated balance sheets. The Company determined that the adoption of the other provisions of ASC 810 did not have a material impact on its consolidated results of operations and financial condition. In March 2008, the FASB expanded the current disclosure framework in ASC 815. This amendment requires companies with derivative instruments to disclose information about how and why a company uses derivative instruments, how derivative instruments and related hedged items are accounted for under ASC 815, and how derivative instruments and related hedged items affect a company’s financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. The required disclosures include the fair value of derivative instruments and their gains or losses in tabular format, information about credit-risk-related contingent features in derivative agreements, counterparty credit risk, and the company’s strategies and objectives for using derivative instruments. The expanded disclosure framework provisions of ASC 815 are effective prospectively for periods beginning on or after November 15, 2008. On January 1, 2009, the Company adopted these provisions and determined that, other than the additional disclosures related to its interest rate swap the Company is now required to make, the adoption of the expanded disclosure framework in ASC 815 did not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements. In April 2008, the FASB amended the factors that should be considered in developing renewal or extension assumptions used to determine the useful life of a recognized intangible asset under ASC Topic 350-Intangibles- Goodwill and Other (“ASC 350”). In developing assumptions about renewal or extension used to determine the useful life of a recognized intangible asset, an entity may consider its own historical experience in renewing or extending similar arrangements; however, these assumptions should be adjusted for the entity-specific factors set forth in ASC Section 350-30-35-Determining the Useful Life of an Intangible Asset. In addition, the amendment to ASC 350 requires disclosure of information that enables users of financial statements to assess the extent to which the expected future cash flows associated with the asset are affected by the entity’s intent and/or ability to renew or extend the arrangement for a recognized intangible asset. The amended requirements of ASC 350 are effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2008, and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is prohibited. On January 1, 2009, the Company adopted the amended requirements of ASC 350 noted above. The adoption of these requirements did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated results of operations and financial condition. In June 2008, the FASB amended the guidance in ASC 815 regarding evaluating whether an instrument involving a contingency is considered indexed to an entity’s own stock. The amended guidance in ASC 815 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2008, and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early application is not permitted. Paragraph 815-10-15-74(a) of ASC 815 specifies that a contract that would otherwise meet the definition of a derivative but is both (a) indexed to the company’s own stock and (b) classified in stockholders’ equity in the statement of financial position would not be considered a derivative financial instrument. The amended guidance in ASC 815 provides a new two-step model to be applied in determining whether a financial instrument or an embedded feature is indexed to an issuer’s own stock and thus able 89 to qualify for the scope exception provided for in paragraph ASC 815-10-15-74(a). The Company’s 6.5% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014 (the “Notes”) are subject to the amended guidance in ASC 815 since the notes are indexed to the Company’s own stock and are convertible, under certain circumstances, into common stock at a specified conversion rate. Based on the Company’s analysis of the Notes under ASC 815 and other related guidance, the Company concluded that the embedded conversion option qualifies for the scope exception in paragraph ASC 815-10-15-74(a) because it is both (1) indexed to the Company’s own stock because all of the triggering conversion events are contingencies that are not based on an observable market or an observable index and that the only variables that affect the settlement amount of the conversion in each case would be inputs to the fair value of a fixed-for-fixed option on equity shares as they relate to stock price and (2) would be classified in stockholders’ equity if it were a freestanding instrument. The Notes including the embedded conversion option are classified as a liability in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. ASC 815 requires issuers of convertible notes that protect holders from declines in the issuer’s stock price (“down-round” protection) to account for these instruments as derivatives. The Notes do not contain any “down-round” protection, therefore the adoption of the amended guidance in ASC 815 as of January 1, 2009 did not impact the Company’s consolidated financial statements. In April 2009, FASB amended the provisions of ASC 805 related to the initial recognition and measurement, subsequent measurement and accounting, and disclosures for assets and liabilities arising from contingencies in business combinations. No subsequent accounting guidance is provided in the amended guidance, and the FASB expects an acquirer to develop a systematic and rational basis for subsequently measuring and accounting for acquired contingencies depending on their nature. The amended provisions of ASC 805 noted above are effective for contingent assets or contingent liabilities acquired in business combinations for which the acquisition date is on or after the beginning of the first annual reporting period beginning on or after December 15, 2008. The Company has determined that the adoption of the amended provisions of ASC 805 did not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements. On April 9, 2009, FASB provided additional guidance for estimating fair value in accordance with ASC 820 when the volume and level of activity for the asset or liability have significantly decreased. In addition, this supplemental guidance includes guidance on identifying circumstances that indicate a transaction is not orderly. Further, the supplemental guidance emphasizes that even if there has been a significant decrease in the volume and level of activity for the asset or liability and regardless of the valuation technique(s) used, the objective of a fair value measurement remains the same. The supplemental guidance in ASC 820 described above is effective for interim and annual reporting periods ending after June 15, 2009, and is to be applied prospectively. Early adoption is permitted. The Company adopted the supplemental guidance in ASC 820 beginning with the quarterly period ended June 30, 2009 and determined that the adoption of this guidance did not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements. On April 9, 2009, FASB amended ASC Topic 825-Financial Instruments (“ASC 825”) to require disclosures about fair value of financial instruments for interim reporting periods of publicly traded companies as well as in annual financial statements. This guidance also amends ASC Topic 270-Interim Reporting to require those disclosures in summarized financial information at interim reporting periods. The amended requirements of ASC 825 described above are effective for interim reporting periods ending after June 15, 2009. The Company adopted the amended requirements of ASC 825 beginning with the quarterly period ended June 30, 2009 and determined that, other than the additional disclosures related to the fair value of financial instruments the Company is now required to make, the adoption of the amended requirements of ASC 825 did not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements. ASC 855-Subsequent Events (“ASC 855”) establishes general standards of accounting for and disclosure of events that occur after the balance sheet date but before financial statements are issued or are available to be issued. Specifically, ASC 855 sets forth the period and circumstances during and under which an entity should evaluate events or transactions occurring after the balance sheet date for potential recognition and disclosure in the financial statements. ASC 855 also provides guidance regarding the disclosures that an entity should make about events or 90 transactions that occurred after the balance sheet date. The Company adopted the provisions of ASC 855 beginning with the quarterly period ended June 30, 2009 in accordance with ASC 855’s effective date and the effects of subsequent events have been evaluated by the Company through the date on which the Company’s reports on Forms 10-Q and 10-K are filed. The adoption of ASC 855 impacts only disclosures in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. In February 2010, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2010-09-Subesequent Events (Topic 855): Amendments to Certain Recognition and Disclosure Requirements (“ASU 2010-09”). The amendments in ASU 2010-09 remove the requirement for an SEC filer to disclose a date through which subsequent events have been evaluated in both issued and revised financial statements. Revised financial statements include financial statements revised as a result of either correction of an error or retrospective application of GAAP. The FASB also clarified that if the financial statements have been revised, then an entity that is not an SEC filer should disclose both the date that the financial statements were issued or available to be issued and the date the revised financial statements were issued or available to be issued. The FASB believes these amendments remove potential conflicts with the SEC’s literature. All of the amendments in ASU 2010-09 were effective upon issuance except for the use of the issued date for conduit debt obligors. That amendment is effective for interim or annual periods ending after June 15, 2010. The Company adopted the provisions of ASU 2010-09 upon issuance. The adoption only impacted disclosures in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. In June 2009, the FASB issued ASU 2009-01-Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“ASU 2009-01”). FASB issued ASU 2009-01 (ASC Topic 105) to establish the ASC as the source of authoritative accounting principles recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities in the preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to identify the sources of accounting principles and the framework for selecting the principles used in the preparation of financial statements of nongovernmental entities that are presented in conformity with GAAP. ASU 2009-01 does not affect the rules and interpretive releases of the SEC, which are also sources of authoritative GAAP for SEC registrants. ASU 2009-01 is effective for financial statements issued for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. The Company adopted the provisions of ASU 2009-01 beginning with the quarterly period ended September 30, 2009 and determined that the adoption of ASU 2009-01 did not have an impact on its consolidated financial statements because it only codifies existing non-SEC accounting literature. In August 2009, the FASB issued ASU 2009-05-Measuring Liabilities at Fair Value (“ASU 2009-05”), an amendment of ASC 820. ASU 2009-05 addresses practice difficulties caused by the tension between fair value measurements based on the price that would be paid to transfer a liability to a new obligor and contractual or legal requirements that prevent such transfers from taking place. ASU 2009-05 provides clarification that in circumstances in which a quoted price in an active market for the identical liability is not available, a reporting entity is required to measure fair value using valuation techniques that incorporate: (1) the quoted price of the identical liability when the liability is traded as an asset; (2) quoted prices for similar liabilities or similar liabilities when the liabilities are traded as assets; or (3) other valuation techniques that are consistent with the principles of ASC 820 (e.g. a present value technique based on the income approach). The guidance provided in ASU 2009-05 is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after August 27, 2009. The Company adopted the provisions of ASU 2009-05 beginning with the quarterly period ended September 30, 2009 and determined that the adoption of ASU 2009-05 did not have an impact on its consolidated financial statements. Pending Accounting Pronouncements In October, 2009, the FASB issued ASU No. 2009-13-Revenue Recognition (Topic 605), Multiple-Deliverable Revenue Arrangements a consensus of the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force (“ASU 2009-13’). ASU 2009-13 amends ASC Subtopic 650-25 to eliminate the requirement that all undelivered elements have vendor specific objective evidence (“VSOE”) or third party evidence (“TPE”) before an entity can recognize the portion of an overall arrangement fee that is attributable to items that already have been delivered. In the absence of VSOE or TPE of the standalone selling price for one or more delivered or undelivered elements in a multiple-element arrangement, entities will be required to estimate the selling prices of those elements. The overall arrangement fee 91 will be allocated to each element (both delivered and undelivered items) based on their relative selling prices, regardless of whether those selling prices are evidenced by VSOE or TPE or are based on the entity’s estimated selling price. Application of the “residual method” of allocating an overall arrangement fee between delivered and undelivered elements will no longer be permitted upon adoption of ASU 2009-13. Additionally, the new guidance will require entities to disclose more information about their multiple-element revenue arrangements. The ASU is effective prospectively for revenue arrangements entered into or materially modified in fiscal years beginning on or after June 15, 2010. Early adoption is permitted. If a company elects early adoption and the period of adoption is not the beginning of its fiscal year, the requirements must be applied retrospectively to the beginning of the fiscal year. Retrospective application to prior years is an option, but is not required. In the initial year of application, companies are required to make qualitative and quantitative disclosures about the impact of the changes. The Company is currently evaluating the potential impact, if any, of the adoption of ASU 2009-13 on its consolidated financial statements. In December 2009, the FASB issued ASU No. 2009-17-Consolidations (Topic 810): Improvements to Financial Reporting by Enterprises Involved with Variable Interest Entities (“ASU 2009-17”). ASU 2009-17 amends the guidance on variable interest entities in ASC Topic 810 related to the consolidation of variable interest entities. It requires reporting entities to evaluate former qualifying special purpose entities (“ QSPEs”) for consolidation, changes the approach to determining a variable interest entities (“VIEs”) primary beneficiary from a quantitative assessment to a qualitative assessment designed to identify a controlling financial interest, and increases the frequency of required reassessments to determine whether a company is the primary beneficiary of a VIE. It also clarifies, but does not significantly change, the characteristics that identify a VIE. This ASU requires additional year-end and interim disclosures for public and nonpublic companies that are similar to the disclosures required by ASC paragraphs 810-10-50-8 through 50-19 and 860-10-50-3 through 50-9. ASU No. 2009-17 is effective as of the beginning of each reporting entity’s first annual reporting period that begins after November 15, 2009, for interim periods within that first annual reporting period, and for interim and annual reporting period thereafter. The Company is currently evaluating the potential impact, if any, of the adoption of ASU 2009-17 on its consolidated financial statements. In January 2010, the FASB issued ASU 2010-06-Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures (Topic 820): Improving Disclosures about Fair Value Measurements (“ASU 2010-06”). ASU 2010-06 amends certain disclosure requirements of Subtopic 820-10 and provides additional disclosures for transfers in and out of Levels I and II and for activity in Level III. This ASU also clarifies certain other existing disclosure requirements including level of desegregation and disclosures around inputs and valuation techniques. The final amendments to the ASC will be effective for annual or interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2009, except for the requirement to provide the Level 3 activity for purchases, sales, issuances, and settlements on a gross basis. That requirement will be effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2010, and for interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted. ASU 2010-06 does not require disclosures for earlier periods presented for comparative purposes at initial adoption. The Company does not believe that ASU 2010-06 will have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. In February 2010, the FASB issued ASU No. 2010-08-Technical Corrections to Various Topics (“ASU 2010- 08”). ASU 2010-08 is the result of the FASB’s review of its standards to determine if any provisions are outdated, contain inconsistencies, or need clarifications to reflect the FASB’s original intent. The FASB believes the amendments do not fundamentally change U.S. GAAP. However, certain clarifications on embedded derivatives and hedging (Subtopic 815-15) may cause a change in the application of that Subtopic and special transition provisions are provided for those amendments. The ASU contains various effective dates. The clarifications of the guidance on embedded derivatives and hedging (Subtopic 815-15) are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2009. The amendments to the guidance on accounting for income taxes in a reorganization (Subtopic 852-740) applies to reorganizations for which the date of the reorganization is on or after the beginning of the first annual reporting period beginning on or after December 15, 2008. All other amendments are effective as of the first reporting period (including interim periods) beginning after February 2, 2010. The Company does not believe that ASU 2010-08 will have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. 92 2. Fair Value Measurements ASC 820 defines fair value as the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date. ASC 820 establishes a valuation hierarchy for disclosure of the inputs to valuation used to measure fair value. This hierarchy prioritizes the inputs into three broad levels as follows. Level 1 inputs are quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 inputs are quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets or inputs that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly through market corroboration, for substantially the full term of the financial instrument. Level 3 inputs are unobservable inputs based on the Company’s assumptions used to measure assets and liabilities at fair value. A financial asset or liability’s classification within the hierarchy is determined based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The following table provides the assets and liabilities carried at fair value measured on a recurring basis at December 31, 2009: Fair Value Measurement Using Total Carrying Value Quoted prices in active markets (Level 1) Significant other observable inputs (Level 2) Significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) Interest rate swap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $(372,408) $— $(372,408) $— The Company’s interest rate swap is carried at fair value measured on a recurring basis. The Company has elected to use the income approach to value the derivatives, using observable Level 2 market expectations at the measurement date and standard valuation techniques to convert future amounts to a single present amount assuming that participants are motivated, but not compelled to transact. Level 2 inputs for the swap valuations are limited to quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets (specifically futures contracts) and inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability (e.g., LIBOR cash and swap rates and credit risk at commonly quoted intervals as published by Bloomberg on the last day of the period for financial institutions with the same credit rating as the counterparty). Mid-market pricing is used as a practical expedient for fair value measurements. Key inputs, including the cash rates for short term, futures rates and swap rates beyond the derivative maturity are used to interpolate the spot rates at the three month rate resets specified by each swap. A credit default swap rate based on the current credit rating of the counterparty is applied to all cash flows when the swap is in an asset position. The Company uses the floating rate factor related to its variable rate debt (6.5%) to discount all cash flows when the derivative is in a liability position to reflect the potential credit risk to lenders. 3. Other Receivables At December 31, 2008 and 2009, insurance premiums of approximately $2.4 million and $3.3 million, respectively, were receivable from third parties related to the reinsurance activities of the Company’s two captive subsidiaries. The insurance premiums receivable is classified as “Other receivables” in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. In addition, the Company’s expected losses related to workers’ compensation and general and professional liability in excess of the Company’s liability under its associated reinsurance programs at December 31, 2009 were approximately $2.3 million, of which approximately $805,000 was classified as “Other receivables” and approximately $1.5 million was classified as “Other assets” in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet. The Company’s expected losses related to workers’ compensation and general and professional liability in excess of the Company’s liability under its associated reinsurance programs at December 31, 2008 was approximately $1.4 million, of which approximately $446,000 was classified as “Other receivables” and approximately $1.0 million was classified as “Other assets” in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. The Company recorded a corresponding liability, which offset these expected losses. This liability was classified as “Reinsurance liability reserve” in current liabilities and “Other long-term liabilities” in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet. 93 4. Prepaid Expenses and Other Prepaid expenses and other comprised the following: Prepaid payroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prepaid insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prepaid taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prepaid rent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Provider advances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prepaid maintenance agreements and copier leases . . . . . . . . . . . Prepaid bus tokens and passes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prepaid commissions and brokerage fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interest receivable—certificates of deposit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 31, 2008 2009 $ 2,703,503 3,381,451 3,978,742 737,847 285,020 608,075 1,133,290 548,446 694,852 1,306,413 $ 2,578,670 2,242,499 1,576,956 743,402 83,265 634,474 1,076,377 608,566 889,156 2,006,248 Total prepaid expenses and other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,377,639 $12,439,613 5. Notes Receivable Notes receivable included the following: Unsecured promissory note from The ReDCo Group, a managed entity, with principal and interest due in eight equal quarterly installments beginning October 2007 through September 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unsecured promissory note from Family Preservation Community Services, Inc., a managed entity, with principal and interest due in sixty equal monthly installments beginning November 2007 through October 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unsecured promissory note from FCP, Inc., a managed entity, with principal and interest due in thirty-six equal monthly installments beginning February 2007 through January 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unsecured promissory note from Clearfield Jefferson Community Mental Health Center, Inc., a third-party entity, with principal and accrued but unpaid interest due July 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Less current portion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interest Rate December 31, 2008 2009 5.0% $225,000 $— 4.5% 272,660 — 9.5% 98,559 — 5.0% 3,622 — 599,841 — 467,682 — $132,159 $— Accrued interest receivable related to these notes totaled approximately $33,000 at December 31, 2008, and was classified as “Prepaid expenses and other assets” in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. 6. Acquisitions The following acquisitions have been accounted for using the purchase method of accounting and the results of operations are included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements from the date of acquisition. The synergistic benefits realized in the following acquisitions are the primary drivers for the premium paid by the Company based on the expected increase in cash flow resulting from revenue enhancements and potential cost savings achievable through the acquisitions. These synergies are also the primary driver in the amount of goodwill recognized as a result of these acquisitions. 94 A final valuation was performed in 2008 with respect to the assets and liabilities acquired for Camelot Community Care, Inc. (“CCC”) and in 2009 with respect to the assets and liabilities acquired for AmericanWork, Inc. (“AW”) and the excess of the purchase price over the fair value of the net identifiable assets has been allocated to goodwill. On September 30, 2008, the Company acquired substantially all of the assets in Illinois and Indiana of CCC. CCC is a Florida not-for-profit tax exempt corporation with operations in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Texas that provides home and community based services and foster care services. The purchase price of approximately $5.4 million consisted of cash in the amount of approximately $573,000 with the remaining $4.8 million credited against the purchase price for all of CCC’s indebtedness to the Company for management services rendered by the Company to CCC under several management services agreements. Historically, the Company provided various management services to CCC for a fee under separate management services agreements for each state in which CCC operated. In connection with the Company’s acquisition of the assets of CCC’s Illinois and Indiana operations, the Company consolidated its remaining management services agreements with CCC (i.e., Florida, Ohio and Texas) into one administrative service agreement under which the Company will provide a more narrow range of services to CCC as compared to the services historically provided by the Company. The Company believes this acquisition expands its home and community based services and foster care services into Illinois and further expands its presence in Indiana. The cash portion of the purchase price was funded by the Company’s cash generated from operations. The following represents the Company’s allocation of the purchase price and associated acquisition costs: Consideration: Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Credit for indebtedness of CCC to the Company for management services provided by the Company to CCC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Estimated cost of acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allocated to: Goodwill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Intangibles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fixed assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 572,575 4,827,425 20,832 $5,420,832 $1,936,415 3,419,539 39,402 25,476 $5,420,832 The above goodwill is tax deductible. Effective September 30, 2008, the Company acquired all of the equity interest in AW, a community based mental health provider operating in 19 Georgia locations as of December 31, 2009. AW provides, among other things, independent living services and training in support of individuals with mental illness, outpatient individual and group behavioral health services, and community based vocational and peer supported vocational and employment services. The total purchase price consisted of cash in the amount of approximately $3.5 million, with approximately $3.0 million paid by the Company at closing on October 14, 2008 and the balance held by the Company for one year to secure potential indemnity obligations. The remaining balance was paid by the Company on November 24, 2009. In April 2009, the purchase price adjustment as provided for in the associated purchase agreement was finalized resulting in an additional amount payable by the Company of approximately $270,000, which the 95 Company paid to the seller on April 14, 2009. In addition, the Company paid amounts to the seller during the three months ended September 30, 2009 totaling approximately $196,000 for tax related items. The Company believes this acquisition enhances its community based social services offering, expands its presence in Georgia, and further positions the Company for growth. The purchase price and the additional amount resulting from the final working capital adjustment were funded by cash generated from the Company’s operations. The following represents the Company’s allocation of the purchase price and associated acquisition costs: Consideration: Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Estimated cost of acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allocated to: Goodwill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Intangibles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fixed assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Working capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,966,048 59,790 $4,025,838 $1,045,621 1,387,441 528,989 944,979 118,808 $4,025,838 The above goodwill is tax deductible. The following table summarizes the allocation of purchase price to intangible assets at December 31, 2008 and 2009 for intangible assets acquired during the years 2006—2008: Intangible assets acquired in 2006: Management contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Customer relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Customer relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Restrictive covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Software license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Estimated Useful Life 10 Yrs 15 Yrs 10 Yrs 5 Yrs 5 Yrs Gross Carrying Amount December 31, 2008 2009 $ 6,326,000 3,559,594 1,417,000 75,000 337,500 $ 6,326,000 3,559,594 1,417,000 75,000 337,500 Total intangible assets acquired in 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.3 Yrs $11,715,094 $11,715,094 Intangible assets acquired in 2007: Customer relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Restrictive covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Software license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Yrs 6 Yrs 5 Yrs 5 Yrs $66,341,777 6,000,000 9,628 468,884 $66,341,777 6,000,000 9,628 468,884 Total intangible assets acquired in 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.2 Yrs $72,820,289 $72,820,289 Intangible assets acquired in 2008: Customer relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Restrictive covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Yrs 5 Yrs $ 4,771,980 35,000 $ 4,771,980 35,000 Total intangible assets acquired in 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.9 Yrs $ 4,806,980 $ 4,806,980 96 No significant residual value is estimated for these intangible assets. Amortization expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful life. In 2008, approximately $11.0 million of the customer relationships intangible assets acquired in connection with the Company’s acquisition of Charter LCI Corporation, including its subsidiaries, (“LogistiCare”) in 2007, was considered impaired and written off. The following unaudited pro forma information presents a summary of the consolidated results of operations of the Company as if the acquisition of CCC and AW had occurred on January 1, 2008. The pro forma financial information is not necessarily indicative of the results of operations that would have occurred had the transaction been effective on January 1, 2008. Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Net income (loss) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diluted earnings (loss) per share . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 708,647,276 $(154,849,394) (12.36) $ December 31, 2008 7. Goodwill and Intangibles Changes in goodwill were as follows: Balances at December 31, 2007 Goodwill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accumulated impairment losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 77,841,614 — $202,868,683 $ 280,710,297 — — Social Services NET Services Consolidated Total LogistiCare acquisition cost adjustments, tax adjustments and pre-acquisition cost adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LogistiCare intangible asset valuation adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LogistiCare working capital adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Family & Children’s Services, Inc. intangible asset valuation adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Family & Children’s Services, Inc. acquisition cost adjustments . . . WCG foreign currency translation adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WCG acquisition cost adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CCC acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AW acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maple Star Nevada net operating loss adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Impairment charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Balances at December 31, 2008 77,841,614 202,868,683 280,710,297 — — — (10,803,456) (400,000) (479,716) (10,803,456) (400,000) (479,716) 142,073 4,632 (2,051,519) (18,932) 1,935,264 491,543 (58,769) (60,700,851) — — — — — — (96,000,000) 142,073 4,632 (2,051,519) (18,932) 1,935,264 491,543 (58,769) (156,700,851) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Goodwill Accumulated impairment losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,285,906 (60,700,851) 191,185,511 (96,000,000) 269,471,417 (156,700,851) 17,585,055 95,185,511 112,770,566 AW working capital true-up and other adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . WCG foreign currency translation adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CCC additional acquisition costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Safecar Services, LLC acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554,078 317,672 1,151 — — — — 29,478 554,078 317,672 1,151 29,478 Balances at December 31, 2009 Goodwill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accumulated impairment losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,158,807 (60,700,851) 191,214,989 (96,000,000) 270,373,796 (156,700,851) $ 18,457,956 $ 95,214,989 $ 113,672,945 97 When the Company acquires a business the Company’s pricing is typically based upon a multiple of the target entity’s historical earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”) and over the years the Company has been a successful competitor using this basis for determining the value of and price paid for its acquisitions. The Company believes this pricing method is also used by its competitors to value their business combinations and is typical in the mergers and acquisition market. During the six months ended December 31, 2008, the Company believes the market for mergers and acquisitions deteriorated such that by the end of 2008, the EBITDA multiples being used to price acquisitions had dropped to approximately half of what they had been for the Company historically. In addition, during the six months ended December 31, 2008, the Company had a significant and sustained decline in market capitalization due to the decrease in the market price of its common stock. The Company believes this decrease in stock price resulted primarily from its lower than anticipated financial results during such period. These financial results were caused by significant changes in the climate of the Company’s business, the uncertainty in the state governmental payer environment, the impact of related budgetary decisions, and by the sharp down turn in the United States economy generally. The $169.9 million non-cash asset impairment charge recorded by the Company for the year ended December 31, 2008, all of which was recorded during the six months ended December 31, 2008, reflects the magnitude of both the decline in its market capitalization and the deterioration of the mergers and acquisitions market (including peer group guideline company multiples of EBITDA) during that six-month period, all as explained further below. At September 30, 2008, the Company determined that the decline in its market capitalization and significant change in the Company’s business climate (each discussed above) during the three months ended September 30, 2008 were indicators that an interim goodwill impairment test was required under ASC 350 for all of its reporting units that had goodwill balances. In determining whether the Company had goodwill impairment at September 30, 2008, it reduced the total aggregate carrying value of the Company’s reporting units to reconcile it to the Company’s substantially decreased market capitalization plus a reasonable control premium as of September 30, 2008. The Company estimated the current fair value of each individual reporting unit with a goodwill balance as of September 30, 2008 using a market-based valuation approach. The results of the Company’s interim goodwill impairment test indicated that goodwill related to its December 2007 acquisition of LogistiCare, which comprises the Company’s NET Services operating segment and reporting unit, and earlier acquisitions assigned to the Company’s Social Services operating segment was impaired. As a result, the Company recorded an estimated non-cash goodwill impairment charge of approximately $96.0 million related to the Company’s NET Services operating segment and $34.0 million related to its Social Services operating segment. The Company’s stock price continued to significantly decline due to the reasons outlined above during the three months ended December 31, 2008. As a result of these factors, the Company further reduced the aggregate carrying value of its reporting units in connection with the Company’s annual asset impairment analysis to reconcile it to the Company’s reduced market capitalization as of December 31, 2008. In subsequently determining whether or not the Company had goodwill impairment to report for the three months ended December 31, 2008, the Company considered both a market-based valuation approach and an income-based valuation approach when estimating the fair values of its reporting units with goodwill balances as of such date. Under the market approach, the fair value of the reporting unit is determined using one or more methods based on current values in the market for similar businesses. Under the income approach, the fair value of the reporting unit is based on the cash flow streams expected to be generated by the reporting unit over an appropriate period and then discounting the cash flow to present value using an appropriate discount rate. The income approach is dependent on a number of significant management assumptions, including estimates of future revenue and expenses, growth rates and discount rates. In arriving at the fair value of the reporting units in the Company’s Social Services operating segment, greater weight was attributed to the market approach due to the continuing market deterioration reflected in current market comparables. For these reporting units, the Company weighted the market-based valuation results at 75% and the income-based valuation results at 25%. In arriving at the fair value for its NET Services operating segment, the Company used the indications of value received by it from potential acquirers of this segment as they represent prices that market participants are willing to offer for this reporting unit under current market conditions. The Company’s annual goodwill impairment analysis resulted in an additional non-cash asset impairment charge for the 98 three months ended December 31, 2008 of approximately $26.7 million (net of a $7.7 million adjustment to the estimated interim period goodwill impairment charge recognized at September 30, 2008 as a result of the Company completing the interim goodwill impairment test in the fourth quarter of 2008) related to goodwill in its Social Services operating segment. As a result of both of the Company’s interim and annual impairment tests, it recorded a total goodwill impairment charge for the year ended December 31, 2008 of $156.7 million, which is included in “Asset impairment charges” in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. Of this non-cash impairment charge, approximately $60.7 million was related to the Company’s Social Service operating segment and approximately $96.0 million was related to its NET Services operating segment. The total amount of goodwill that was deductible for income tax purposes for acquisitions as of December 31, 2008 and 2009 was approximately $35.2 million and $35.6 million, respectively. Intangible assets are comprised of acquired customer relationships, management contracts, restrictive covenants, software licenses and developed technology. The Company valued customer relationships and the management contracts acquired in these acquisitions based upon expected future cash flows resulting from the underlying contracts with state and local agencies to provide social services in the case of customer relationships, and management and administrative services provided to the managed entity with respect to the acquired management contract. Intangible assets consisted of the following: December 31, 2008 2009 Estimated Useful Life Gross Carrying Amount Accumulated Amortization Gross Carrying Amount Management contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Customer relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Customer relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Developed technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Software licenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Restrictive covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Yrs 15 Yrs 10 Yrs 6 Yrs 5 Yrs 5 Yrs $13,368,024 74,878,448 1,417,000 6,000,000 736,012 142,860 $ (4,824,824) $12,849,562 75,487,152 1,417,000 6,000,000 801,708 144,209 (8,450,165) (318,825) (1,067,204) (264,787) (60,952) Accumulated Amortization $ (6,169,122) (13,505,600) (460,525) (2,067,204) (443,742) (90,177) Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.6 Yrs* $96,542,344 $(14,986,757) $96,699,631 $(22,736,370) * Weighted-average amortization period No significant residual value is estimated for these intangible assets. Amortization expense was approximately $3.4 million, $8.2 million and $8.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. The total amortization expense is estimated to be approximately $7.7 million for 2010, $7.6 million for 2011, $7.5 million for 2012, $7.3 million for 2013 and $6.2 million for 2014, based on completed acquisitions as of December 31, 2009. In connection with its interim asset impairment analysis conducted as of September 30, 2008, the Company determined that, for the same reasons noted above related to its goodwill impairment analysis as of such date, the value of the customer relationships acquired in connection with the Company’s acquisition of LogistiCare was impaired as of September 30, 2008. Consequently, in addition to the interim goodwill impairment charge noted above, the Company recorded an $11.0 million non-cash interim asset impairment charge for the three months ended September 30, 2008 to reflect the excess of the carrying value of customer relationships acquired in connection with its acquisition of LogistiCare over the estimated fair value of such relationships. The Company estimated the fair values of these intangible assets on a projected discounted cash flow basis. 99 In connection with its annual asset impairment analysis conducted as of December 31, 2008, the Company determined that the same factors that required it to conduct goodwill impairment tests with respect to the Company’s reporting units as of December 31, 2008 also required the Company to conduct impairment tests with respect to the other intangible assets in these reporting units. In conducting such tests, the Company compared the undiscounted cash flow associated with each such intangible asset over its remaining life to the carrying value of such asset. If there was an indication of impairment, a discounted cash flow analysis was performed to determine the fair value of the intangible asset as of December 31, 2008, which was then compared to its carrying value. The Company determined, as a result of such comparisons, that there were additional asset impairment losses as of December 31, 2008 in its Social Services operating segment related to these other intangible assets, and, accordingly, the Company recorded an additional impairment charge of $2.2 million for the three months ended December 31, 2008 related to these other intangible assets. As a result of both of its interim and annual impairment tests, the Company recorded a total asset impairment charge related to other intangible assets for the year ended December 31, 2008 of $13.2 million, which is included in “Asset impairment charges” in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. This non-cash impairment charge includes the $11.0 million recorded with respect to the Company’s NET Services operating segment as of September 30, 2008 and the $2.2 million recorded with respect to its Social Services operating segment as of December 31, 2008. 8. Detail of Other Balance Sheet Accounts Property and equipment consisted of the following: Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Furniture and equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Less accumulated depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Estimated Useful Life — 39years 3-7 years December 31, 2008 2009 $ 20,000 230,000 21,709,263 21,959,263 9,975,895 $ 20,000 230,000 25,571,835 25,821,835 14,655,563 $11,983,368 11,166,272 Depreciation expense was approximately $1.6 million, $4.5 million and $4.7 million for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. Accrued expenses consisted of the following: December 31, 2008 2009 Accrued compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Income taxes payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accrued interest payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Due to former shareholder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $12,720,169 — 1,591,730 625,000 12,295,841 $18,168,094 2,155,109 1,528,605 — 11,537,921 $27,232,740 $33,389,729 100 9. Long-Term Obligations The Company’s long-term obligations were as follows: 5% unsecured, subordinated note to former stockholder of acquired company, interest payable semi-annually beginning December 2005 and all unpaid principal and any accrued and unpaid interest due June 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4% unsecured, subordinated note to former owner of acquired company, interest payable semi-annually beginning April 2008 with principal of $300,000 due April 2008, but withheld due to a dispute, and all remaining unpaid principal and any accrued and unpaid interest due April 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.85% secured, note payable, interest and principal payable monthly beginning December 31, 2008 2009 $ 618,680 $ 618,680 1,800,000 1,800,000 January 2009 through September 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 989,925 — 6.5% convertible senior subordinated notes, interest payable semi-annually beginning May 2008 with principal due May 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70,000,000 70,000,000 $30,000,000 revolving loan, LIBOR plus 6.5% (effective rate of 6.74% at December 31, 2009) through December 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . — — $173,000,000 term loan, LIBOR plus 6.5% with principal and interest payable quarterly (as described below) through December 2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164,350,000 131,794,580 Less current portion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237,758,605 14,264,925 204,213,260 17,480,918 $223,493,680 $186,732,342 The carrying amount of the long-term obligations approximated its fair value at December 31, 2008 and 2009. The fair value of the Company’s long-term obligations was estimated based on interest rates for the same or similar debt offered to the Company having same or similar remaining maturities and collateral requirements. Annual maturities of long-term obligations as of December 31, 2009 are as follows: Year 2010 2011 2012 2013 Thereafter Total Amount $ 17,480,918 18,827,797 22,593,357 75,311,188 70,000,000 $204,213,260 Convertible senior subordinated notes. On November 13, 2007, the Company issued $70.0 million in aggregate principal amount of 6.5% Convertible Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014 (the “Notes”), under the amended note purchase agreement dated November 9, 2007 to the purchasers named therein. The proceeds of $70.0 million were initially placed into escrow and were released on December 7, 2007 to partially fund the cash portion of the purchase price of LogistiCare. The Notes are general unsecured obligations subordinated in right of payment to any existing or future senior debt including the Company’s credit facility with CIT Capital Securities LLC (“CIT”) described below. In connection with the Company’s issuance of the Notes, the Company entered into an Indenture between the Company, as issuer, and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (the “Indenture”). 101 The Company will pay interest on the Notes in cash semiannually in arrears on May 15 and November 15 of each year beginning on May 15, 2008. The Notes will mature on May 15, 2014. The Notes are convertible, under certain circumstances, into common stock at a conversion rate, subject to adjustment as provided for in the Indenture, of 23.982 shares per $1,000 principal amount of Notes. This conversion rate is equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $41.698 per share. On and after the occurrence of a fundamental change (as defined below), the Notes will be convertible at any time prior to the close of business on the business day before the stated maturity date of the Notes. In the event of a fundamental change as described in the Indenture, each holder of the notes shall have the right to require the Company to repurchase the Notes for cash. A fundamental change includes among other things: (i) the acquisition in a transaction or series of transactions of 50% or more of the total voting power of all shares of the Company’s capital stock; (ii) a merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity, merger of another entity into the Company, or the sale, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets to another entity (other than to one or more of the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiaries), other than any such transaction (A) pursuant to which holders of 50% or more of the total voting power of the Company’s capital stock entitled to vote in the election of directors immediately prior to such transaction have or are entitled to receive, directly or indirectly, at least 50% or more of the total voting power of the capital stock entitled to vote in the election of directors of the continuing or surviving corporation immediately after such transaction or (B) which is effected solely to change the jurisdiction of incorporation of the Company and results in a reclassification, conversion or exchange of outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock into solely shares of common stock; (iii) if, during any consecutive two-year period, individuals who at the beginning of that two-year period constituted the Company’s board of directors, together with any new directors whose election to the Company’s board of directors or whose nomination for election by the Company’s stockholders, was approved by a vote of a majority of the directors then still in office who were either directors at the beginning of such period or whose election or nomination for election was previously approved, cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the Company’s board of directors then in office; (iv) if a resolution approving a plan of liquidation or dissolution of the Company is approved by its board of directors or the Company’s stockholders; and (v) upon the occurrence of a termination of trading as defined in the Indenture. The Indenture contains customary terms and provisions that provide that upon certain events of default, including, without limitation, the failure to pay amounts due under the Notes when due, the failure to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement under the Indenture, or certain defaults under other agreements or instruments, occurring and continuing, either the trustee or the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding may declare the principal of the Notes and any accrued and unpaid interest through the date of such declaration immediately due and payable. Upon any such declaration, such principal, premium, if any, and interest shall become due and payable immediately. In the case of certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency relating to the Company or any significant subsidiary of the Company, the principal amount of the Notes together with any accrued interest through the occurrence of such event shall automatically become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act of the Trustee or the holders of the Notes. Credit facility. On December 7, 2007, the Company entered into a Credit and Guaranty Agreement (the “Credit Agreement”) with CIT Healthcare LLC, as administrative agent, Bank of America, N.A. and SunTrust Bank, as co-documentation agents, ING Capital LLC and Royal Bank of Canada, as co-syndication agents, other lenders party thereto, and CIT, as sole lead arranger and bookrunner. The Credit Agreement replaced the Company’s previous credit facility with CIT Healthcare LLC. The Credit Agreement, as amended, provides the Company with a senior secured first lien credit facility in aggregate principal amount of $213.0 million comprised of a $173.0 million, six year term loan and a $30.0 million, five year revolving credit facility (“Credit Facility”). On December 7, 2007, the Company borrowed the entire amount available under the term loan facility and used the proceeds of the term loan to (i) fund a portion of the purchase price paid by the Company to acquire LogistiCare; (ii) refinance all of the then existing indebtedness under 102 its second amended loan agreement with CIT Healthcare LLC in the amount of approximately $17.3 million; and (iii) pay fees and expenses related to the acquisition of LogistiCare and the financing thereof. The revolving credit facility must be used to (i) provide funds for general corporate purposes of the Company; (ii) fund permitted acquisitions; (iii) fund ongoing working capital requirements; (iv) collateralize letters of credit; and (v) make capital expenditures. The Company intends to draw down on the revolving credit facility from time-to-time for these uses. The Credit Agreement contains customary representations and warranties, affirmative and negative covenants, yield protection, indemnities, expense reimbursement, material adverse change clauses, and events of default and other terms and conditions. In addition, the Company is required to maintain certain financial covenants under the amendment to the Credit Agreement described below. As of December 31, 2009, the Company was in compliance with all of the financial covenants under the amendment to the Credit Agreement. Further, the Company is prohibited from paying cash dividends if there is a default under the facility or if the payment of any cash dividends would result in default. On March 11, 2009, the Company agreed with its creditors to amend certain terms in the Credit Agreement (“Amendment No. 1 to the Credit Agreement” and, together with the Credit Agreement, the “Amended Credit Agreement”) to, among other things: • • • • • decrease the revolving credit facility from $40 million to $30 million; increase the interest rate spread on the annual interest rate from LIBOR plus 3.5% to LIBOR plus 6.5% and, with respect to Base Rate Loans (as such terms are defined in the Credit Agreement), increase the interest rate spread on the annual interest rate from Base Rate plus 2.5% to Base Rate plus 5.5% effective March 11, 2009; provided the interest rate will be adjusted upwards and the Company will incur a fee if certain consolidated senior leverage ratios exceed the corresponding ratio ceilings set forth in Amendment No. 1 to the Credit Agreement determined as of September 30, 2009 and December 31, 2009; amend certain financial covenants to change the requirements to a level where the Company met the requirements for the fourth quarter of 2008 and would likely meet the requirements for the fiscal year 2009; establish a new financial covenant through December 31, 2009 based upon the Company’s operations maintaining a minimum earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization level (as such term is defined in Amendment No. 1 to the Credit Agreement) commencing with the three months ending March 31, 2009; and, require the Company to deliver to the lenders monthly consolidated financial statements and a 13-week rolling cash flow forecast each week from the effective date of Amendment No. 1 to the Credit Agreement to December 31, 2009. In exchange for the amendments described above, the Company paid an amendment fee to certain lenders equal to $565,000 (0.40% of the aggregate amount of the Revolving Commitment and Term Loan outstanding related to those lenders (as such terms are defined in the Amended Credit Agreement)), which was capitalized as deferred financing fees and is included in “Other assets” in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2009. In addition, in connection with this transaction, the Company incurred fees and expenses of approximately $2.0 million, including arrangement, legal, accounting and other related costs. These fees and expenses are reflected in “General and administrative expense” in the amount of approximately $1.7 million and “Interest expense” in the amount of approximately $348,000 in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2009. Under the Amended Credit Agreement the outstanding principal amount of the loans accrues interest at the per annum rate of LIBOR plus 6.5% or the Base Rate plus 5.5% at the Company’s election. The Company may, from time-to-time, request to convert the loan (whether borrowed under the term loan facility or the revolving credit facility) from a Base Rate Loan (subject to the per annum rate of the Base Rate plus 5.5%) to a LIBOR Loan (subject to the per annum rate of LIBOR plus 6.5%). The conversion to a LIBOR Loan may be selected for a period 103 of one, two, three or six months with interest payable on the last day of the period selected except where a period of six months is selected by the Company interest is payable quarterly. If not renewed by the Company subject to CIT approval, the loan will automatically convert back to a Base Rate Loan at the end of the conversion period. The interest rate applied to the Company’s term loan at December 31, 2009 was 6.74%. In addition, the Company is subject to a 0.75% fee per annum on the unused portion of the available funds as well as other administrative fees. No amounts were borrowed under the revolving credit facility as of December 31, 2009, but the entire amount available under this facility may be allocated to collateralize certain letters of credit. As of December 31, 2008, there were five letters of credit in the amount of approximately $6.8 million and five letters of credit as of December 31, 2009 in the amount of approximately $7.3 million collateralized under the revolving credit facility. At December 31, 2008 and 2009, the Company’s available credit under the revolving credit facility was $33.2 million and $22.7 million, respectively. The Company’s obligations under the Credit Facility are guaranteed by all of its present and future domestic subsidiaries (the “Guarantors”) other than the Company’s insurance subsidiaries and managed entities. The Company’s and each Guarantors’ obligations under the Credit Facility are secured by a first priority lien, subject to certain permitted encumbrances, on the Company’s assets and the assets of each Guarantor, including a pledge of 100% of the issued and outstanding stock of the Company’s domestic subsidiaries and 65% of the issued and outstanding stock of its first tier foreign subsidiaries. If an event of default occurs, including, but not limited to, failure to pay any installment of principal or interest when due, failure to pay any other charges, fees, expenses or other monetary obligations owing to CIT when due or particular covenant defaults, as more fully described in the Credit Agreement, the required lenders may cause CIT to declare all unpaid principal and any accrued and unpaid interest and all fees and expenses immediately due. Under the Credit Agreement, the initiation of any bankruptcy or related proceedings will automatically cause all unpaid principal and any accrued and unpaid interest and all fees and expenses to become due and payable. In addition, it is an event of default under the Credit Agreement if the Company defaults on any indebtedness having a principal amount in excess of $5.0 million. Each extension of credit under the Credit Facility is conditioned upon: (i) the accuracy in all material respects of all representations and warranties in the definitive loan documentation; and (ii) there being no default or event of default at the time of such extension of credit. Under the repayment terms of the Credit Agreement, the Company is obligated to repay the term loan in quarterly installments on the last day of each calendar quarter, which commenced on March 31, 2008, so that the following percentages of the term loan borrowed on the closing date are paid as follows: 5% in 2008, 7.5% in 2009, 10% in 2010, 12.5% in 2011, 15% in 2012 and the remaining balance in 2013. With respect to the revolving credit facility, the Company must repay the outstanding principal balance and any accrued but unpaid interest by December 2012. The Company may at any time and from time-to-time prepay the Credit Facility without premium or penalty, provided that it may not re-borrow any portion of the term loan repaid. The Credit Facility also requires the Company to prepay the loan in an aggregate amount equal to 100% of the net cash proceeds of any disposition, or, to the extent the applicable net cash proceeds exceed $500,000. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if at the time of the receipt or application of such net cash proceeds no default or event of default has occurred and is continuing and the Company delivers to the Administrative Agent a certificate, executed by the Company’s chief financial officer, that it intends within three hundred sixty-five days after receipt thereof to use all or part of such net cash proceeds either to purchase assets used in the ordinary course of business of the Company and its subsidiaries or to make capital expenditures, the Company may use all or part of such net cash proceeds in the manner set forth in such certificate; provided, however, that, (A) any such net cash proceeds not so used within the period set forth in such certificate shall, on the first business day immediately following such period, be applied as a prepayment and (B) any assets so acquired shall be subject to the security interests under the collateral documents in the same priority (subject to permitted liens) as the assets subject to such disposition or involuntary disposition. The Company agreed with CIT to subordinate its management fee receivable pursuant to management agreements established with the Company’s managed entities, which have stand-alone credit facilities with CIT Healthcare LLC, to the claims of CIT in the event one of these managed entities defaults under its credit facility. As 104 of December 31, 2008, approximately $733,000 of the Company’s management fees receivable related to these managed entities was subject to this subordination agreement. During 2009, these entities obtained stand-alone credit facilities from other lenders and, as of December 31, 2009, none of these entities had stand-alone credit facilities with CIT Healthcare LLC. As a result, as of December 31, 2009, the Company’s management fee receivable related to these managed entities was not subject to the subordination agreement. 10. Interest Rate Swap In February 2008, the Company entered into an interest rate swap to convert a portion of its floating rate long- term debt expense to fixed rate debt expense. The purpose of this instrument is to hedge the variability of the Company’s future earnings and cash flows caused by movements in interest rates applied to its floating rate long- term debt. The Company holds this derivative only for the purpose of hedging such risks, not for speculation. Under the swap agreement, the Company will pay 3.026% and receive three-month LIBOR on a notional amount of $86.5 million through February 2010. The Company designated the interest rate swap as a cash flow hedge under ASC 815. Prior to Amendment No. 1 to the Credit Agreement described in note 9, the Company anticipated that it would not be in compliance with certain financial covenants as of December 31, 2008. As a result, during the first quarter of 2009, the Company’s long-term debt was converted from a LIBOR Loan to a Base Rate Loan in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement beginning February 27, 2009 through April 1, 2009. The swap was de-designated and all changes in the fair value of the swap from the last effective date (January 31, 2009) were recognized in earnings. Additionally, the balance in other comprehensive loss at January 31, 2009 will be recognized to income ratably through the maturity date of the swap in February 2010. On March 31, 2009, the swap was re-designated as a cash flow hedge under ASC 815 and beginning April 2, 2009 the Company’s long-term debt was converted from a Base Rate Loan to a LIBOR Loan. The swap’s effectiveness is evaluated monthly and effective gains and losses are accumulated in other comprehensive loss until the hedged interest expense is accrued. The fair value amounts in the consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2009, related to the Company’s interest rate swap were as follows: Liability Derivatives December 31, 2009 Balance Sheet Location Fair Value Derivatives designated as hedging instruments under ASC 815 Interest rate contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Current portion of interest rate swap $372,408 Total derivatives designated as hedging instruments under ASC 815 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total derivatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372,408 $372,408 105 The derivative gains and losses in the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2009, related to the Company’s interest rate swap were as follows: Derivatives in ASC 815 cash flow hedging relationship Pretax loss recognized in Other Comprehensive Income on effective portion of derivative Pretax loss on effective portion of derivative reclassified from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss into Income Ineffective portion of loss on derivative and amount excluded from effectiveness testing recognized in income Interest rate contract . . . . . . . . . . . . $246,256 Interest expense $1,610,306 Interest expense $177,848 Amount Location Amount Location Amount Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments under ASC 815 Interest rate contract . . . . . . . . . . . . Location of amounts recognized in income on derivative Amount of loss recognized in income on derivative Interest expense $132,029 Additional information regarding the Company’s interest rate swap is included in notes 1 and 2 above and note 20 below. 11. Business Segments The Company’s operations are organized and reviewed by management along its services lines. After the consummation of the acquisition of LogistiCare, the Company operates in two reportable segments: Social Services and NET Services. The Company operates these reportable segments as separate divisions and differentiates the segments based on the nature of the services they offer. The following describes each of the Company’s segments and its corporate services area. Social Services. Social Services includes government sponsored social services consisting of home and community based counseling, foster care and not-for-profit management services. Through Social Services the Company provides services to a common customer group, principally individuals and families. All of the operating entities within Social Services follow similar operating procedures and methods in managing their operations and each operating entity works within a similar regulatory environment, primarily under Medicaid regulations. The Company manages the activities of Social Services by actual to budget comparisons within each operating entity rather than by comparison between entities. The Company’s budget related to Social Services is prepared on an entity-by-entity basis which represents the aggregation of individual location operating budgets within each Social Services entity and is comprised of: • • • Payer specific revenue streams based upon contracted amounts; Payroll and related employee expenses by position corresponding to the contracted revenue streams; and Other operating expenses such as facilities costs, employee training, mileage and communications in support of operations. The Company’s actual operating contribution margins by operating entity related to Social Services ranged from approximately 4% to 16% as of December 31, 2009. The Company believes that its targeted contribution margin of approximately 10% is allowable by its state and local governmental payers over the long term. In evaluating the financial performance and economic characteristics of Social Services, the Company’s chief operating decision maker regularly reviews the following types of financial and non-financial information for each operating entity within Social Services: • • Consolidated financial statements; Separate condensed financial statements for each individual operating entity versus their budget; 106 • Monthly non-financial statistical information; • • Productivity reports; and Payroll reports. While the Company’s chief operating decision maker evaluates performance in comparison to budget based on the operating results of the individual operating entities within Social Services, the operating entities are aggregated into one reporting segment for financial reporting purposes because the Company believes that the operating entities exhibit similar long term financial performance. In conjunction with the financial performance trends, the Company believes the similar qualitative characteristics of the operating entities it aggregates within Social Services and budgetary constraints of the Company’s payers in each market provide a foundation to conclude that the entities that the Company aggregates within Social Services have similar economic characteristics. Thus, the Company believes the economic characteristics of its operating entities within Social Services meet the criteria for aggregation into a single reporting segment under ASC Topic 280-Segment Reporting. NET Services. NET Services includes managing the delivery of non-emergency transportation services. The Company operates NET Services as a separate division of the Company with operational management and service offerings distinct from the Company’s Social Services operating segment. Financial and operating performance reporting is conducted at a contract level and reviewed weekly at both the operating entity level as well as the corporate level by the Company’s chief operating decision maker. Gross margin performance of individual contracts is consolidated under the associated operating entity and direct general and administrative expenses are allocated to the operating entity. Corporate. Corporate includes corporate accounting and finance, information technology, internal audit, employee training, legal and various other overhead costs, all of which are directly allocated to the operating segments. Segment asset disclosures include property and equipment and other intangible assets. The accounting policies of the Company’s segments are the same as those of the consolidated Company. The Company evaluates performance based on operating income. Operating income is revenue less operating expenses (including client services expense, cost of non-emergency transportation services, general and administrative expense and depreciation and amortization) but is not affected by other income/expense or by income taxes. Other income/ expense consists principally of interest income and interest expense. In calculating operating income for each segment, general and administrative expenses incurred at the corporate level are allocated to each segment based upon their relative direct expense levels excluding costs for purchased services. All intercompany transactions have been eliminated. The following table sets forth certain financial information attributable to the Company’s business segments for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009. In addition, none of the segments have significant non-cash items other than depreciation, amortization and asset impairment charges in reported income. For the year ended December 31, 2007 Social Services(c) NET Services Corporate(a) Consolidated Total Revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $262,198,859 $ 22,866,709 Depreciation and amortization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 4,496,197 Operating income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 23,265,781 $ $ 492,898 2,345,335 Net interest expense (income) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ (209,264) $ 1,810,776 $ $ $ $ 101,051 $285,166,619 — $ 4,989,095 101,051 $ 25,712,167 — $ 1,601,512 Total assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $211,109,778 $318,945,932 $21,927,945 $551,983,655 Capital expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,196,150 $ 158,045 $ 594,843 $ 1,949,038 107 For the year ended December 31, 2008 Social Services(c)(d) NET Services(e) Corporate(a)(b) Consolidated Total Revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $310,529,499 $381,106,735 Depreciation and amortization . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 5,534,242 $ 7,187,252 $ $ 34,036 $ 691,670,270 — $ 12,721,494 Operating income (loss) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ (50,975,738) $ (98,374,986) $ 34,036 $(149,316,688) Net interest expense (income) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ (506,992) $ 19,106,519 $ — $ 18,599,527 Total assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $153,891,688 $204,847,944 $ 6,923,601 $ 365,663,233 Capital expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,470,170 $ 2,487,557 $ 706,280 $ 4,664,007 For the year ended December 31, 2009 Social Services(c) NET Services Corporate(a)(b) Consolidated Total Revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $340,737,952 $460,275,314 Depreciation and amortization . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 6,443,423 $ 6,408,684 Operating income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 24,219,690 $ 29,505,372 Net interest expense (income) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ (178,110) $ 20,610,507 $ $ $ $ — $ 801,013,266 — $ 12,852,107 — $ 53,725,062 — $ 20,432,397 Total assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $148,459,757 $219,928,437 $14,718,472 $ 383,106,666 Capital expenditures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,606,453 $ 1,621,783 $ 471,149 $ 3,699,385 (a) Corporate costs have been allocated to the Social Services and NET Services operating segments. (b) Corporate assets as of December 31, 2008 and 2009 include cash totaling approximately $4.6 million and $12.2 million, notes receivable totaling approximately $225,000 and $0, property and equipment totaling approximately $1.4 million and $1.3 million, and other assets of approximately $721,000 and $403,000, respectively. In addition, corporate assets as of December 31, 2009 included prepaid expenses totaling approximately $768,000. (c) Excludes intersegment revenues of approximately $182,000 for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009, (d) (e) that have been eliminated in consolidation. Includes a non cash impairment charge to goodwill and certain intangible assets of approximately $60.7 million and $2.2 million, respectively. Includes a non cash impairment charge to goodwill and certain intangible assets of approximately $96.0 million and $11.0 million, respectively. The following table details the Company’s revenues, net income and long-lived assets by geographic location. Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $271,853,847 $13,312,772 $285,166,619 Net income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 13,519,068 $ 869,606 $ 14,388,674 Long-lived assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $374,053,183 $16,472,903 $390,526,086 For the year ended December 31, 2007 United States(b) Canada(b) Consolidated Total 108 Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 663,712,020 $27,958,250 $ 691,670,270 Net loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $(149,039,617) $ (6,565,056) $(155,604,673) Long-lived assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 199,787,519 $ 6,522,002 $ 206,309,521 For the year ended December 31, 2008 United States(a)(b) Canada(a)(b) Consolidated Total For the year ended December 31, 2009 United States(b) Canada(b) Consolidated Total Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 778,504,781 $22,508,485 $ 801,013,266 Net income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 20,572,881 $ 552,726 $ 21,125,607 Long-lived assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 191,782,887 $ 7,019,591 $ 198,802,478 (a) Includes a non-cash impairment charge of $163.6 million related to our domestic operations and $6.3 million related to our Canadian operations, respectively. (b) The Social Services and NET Services operating segments, on an aggregate basis, derived approximately 8.9%, 14.2% and 14.2% of the Company’s consolidated revenue from one payer for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. 12. Stockholders’ Equity The Company’s second amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that the Company’s authorized capital stock consists of 40,000,000 shares of common stock, $0.001 par value per share, and 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $0.001 par value per share. During the year ended December 31, 2009, the Company granted a total of 175,000 ten-year options under the 2006 Long-Term Incentive Plan (“2006 Plan”) to purchase the Company’s common stock at exercise prices equal to the market value of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant. The options were granted to a non-employee director of its board of directors, an executive officer and certain key employees. The option exercise price for all options granted ranged from $1.55 to $13.07 and the options vest in three equal installments on the first, second and third anniversaries of the date of grant. The weighted-average fair value of the options granted during the year ended December 31, 2009 totaled $8.52 per share. The Company granted a total of 2,000 shares of restricted stock to a non-employee director of its board of directors during the year ended December 31, 2009. The award vests in three equal installments on the first, second and third anniversaries of the date of grant. The weighted-average fair value of this award totaled $13.07 per share. During the year ended December 31, 2009, the Company issued 46,700 shares of its common stock in connection with the exercise of employee stock options under the 2006 Plan. In addition, during the year ended December 31, 2009, the Company issued 1,400 shares of its common stock in connection with the exercise of employee stock options under the Company’s 1997 Stock Option and Incentive Plan (“1997 Plan”). At December 31, 2008 and 2009, there were 13,462,356 and 13,521,959 shares of the Company’s common stock outstanding, respectively, (including 619,768 treasury shares at December 31, 2008 and 2009) and no shares of preferred stock outstanding. 109 The following table reflects the total number of shares of the Company’s common stock reserved for future issuance as of December 31, 2009: Shares of common stock reserved for: Exercise of stock options and restricted stock awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exchangeable shares issued in connection with the acquisition of WCG that 1,432,876 are exchangeable into shares of the Company’s common stock . . . . . . . . . . Convertible senior subordinated notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261,694 2,224,320 Total shares of common stock reserved for future issuance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,918,890 Subject to the rights specifically granted to holders of any then outstanding shares of the Company’s preferred stock, the Company’s common stockholders are entitled to vote together as a class on all matters submitted to a vote of the Company’s stockholders and are entitled to any dividends that may be declared by the Company’s board of directors. The Company’s common stockholders do not have cumulative voting rights. Upon the Company’s dissolution, liquidation or winding up, holders of the Company’s common stock are entitled to share ratably in the Company’s net assets after payment or provision for all liabilities and any preferential liquidation rights of the Company’s preferred stock then outstanding. The Company’s common stockholders do not have preemptive rights to purchase shares of the Company’s stock. The issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock are not subject to any redemption provisions and are not convertible into any other shares of the Company’s capital stock. The rights, preferences and privileges of holders of the Company’s common stock will be subject to those of the holders of any shares of the Company’s preferred stock the Company may issue in the future. On December 9, 2008, the Board declared a dividend of one preferred share purchase right (a “Right”) for each outstanding share of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share. The dividend was payable on December 22, 2008 (the “Record Date”) to the stockholders of record on that date. Each Right entitles the registered holder to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a share of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Preferred Shares”), of the Company at a price of $15.00 per one one-hundredth of a Preferred Share, subject to adjustment. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in the Preferred Stock Rights Agreement, dated December 9, 2008 (the “Rights Agreement”), between the Company and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as Rights Agent, which provides for a stockholder rights plan. Initially, the Rights are attached to all outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock and no separate Rights certificates will be issued until the distribution date (as defined in the Rights Agreement). The Rights are not exercisable until the distribution date. The Rights will expire on December 9, 2011, unless this date is amended or unless the Rights are earlier redeemed or exchanged by the Company. In addition, the Rights Agreement also provides that the Rights among other things: (i) will not become exercisable in connection with a qualified fully financed offer for any or all of the outstanding shares of the Company’ s common stock (as described in the Rights Agreement); (ii) permit each holder of a Right to receive, upon exercise, shares of the Company’s common stock with a value equal to twice that of the exercise price of the Right if 20% or more of the Company’s outstanding common stock is acquired by a person or group; and (iii) in the event that the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction or 50% or more of its consolidated assets or earning power are sold after a person or group has acquired 20% or more of the Company’s outstanding common stock, will allow each holder of a Right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then-current exercise price of the Right, that number of shares of common stock of the acquiring company, which at the time of such transaction will have a market value of two times the exercise price of the Right. The number of outstanding Rights and the number of one one-hundredths of a Preferred Share to be issued upon exercise of each Right are subject to adjustment under certain circumstances. Because of the nature of the Preferred Shares’ dividend, liquidation and voting rights, the value of the one one-hundredth interest in a Preferred Share purchasable upon exercise of each Right should approximate the value of one share of the Company’s common stock. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the 110 Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends. The Rights will not prevent a takeover of the Company. However, the Rights may cause substantial dilution to a person or group that acquires 20% or more of the Company’s outstanding common stock. The Rights however, should not interfere with any merger or other business combination approved by the Board. Effective as of October 9, 2009, the Board unanimously approved and adopted an amendment to the Rights Agreement (“Rights Amendment No. 1”). The principal purpose of Rights Amendment No. 1 is to revise the definition of a “qualified offer” and the related process by which stockholders can request, following the Company’s receipt of a “qualified offer,” that a special meeting be called to redeem the Rights issued pursuant to the Rights Agreement, to be consistent with additional published guidance that was issued by a leading proxy advisory firm subsequent to the adoption by the Board of the Rights Agreement. In addition, Rights Amendment No. 1 requires that any amendment to the Rights Agreement that extends its term shall be submitted for ratification by the Company’s stockholders within one year of the adoption by the Board of such an amendment. 13. Stock-Based Compensation Arrangements The Company provides stock-based compensation under the Company’s 1997 Plan, 2003 Stock Option Plan (“2003 Plan”) and 2006 Plan to employees, non-employee directors, consultants and advisors. These plans have contributed significantly to the success of the Company by providing for the grant of stock-based and other incentive awards to enhance the Company’s ability to attract and retain employees, directors, consultants, advisors and others who are in a position to make contributions to the success of the Company and any entity in which the Company owns, directly or indirectly, 50% or more of the outstanding capital stock as determined by aggregate voting rights or other voting interests and encourage such persons to take into account the long-term interests of the Company and its stockholders through ownership of the Company’s common stock or securities with value tied to the Company’s common stock. The Company, upon stockholder approval of the 2006 Plan in 2006, replaced the 1997 Plan and 2003 Plan with the 2006 Plan. While all awards outstanding under the 1997 Plan and 2003 Plan remain in effect in accordance with their terms, no additional grants or awards will be made under either plan. To achieve the purposes of the Company’s stock-based compensation program described above, the 2006 Plan allows the flexibility to grant or award stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, unrestricted stock, stock units including restricted stock units and performance awards to eligible persons. Stock option awards granted under the 1997 Plan, 2003 Plan and 2006 Plan were generally ten year options granted at fair market value on the date of grant with time based vesting over a period determined at the time the options were granted, ranging from one to four years (which is equal to the requisite service period) prior to the acceleration of vesting noted below. The Company does not intend to pay dividends on unexercised options. New shares of the Company’s common stock are issued when the options are exercised. The following table summarizes the activity under the 1997 Plan, 2003 Plan and 2006 Plan as of December 31, 2009: Number of shares of the Company’s common stock authorized for issuance Number of shares of the Company’s common stock remaining available for future grants Number of shares of the Company’s common stock subject to Options Stock Grants 1997 Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2003 Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2006 Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428,572 1,400,000 1,800,000(1) Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,628,572 — — 23,628 23,628 11,034 745,366 674,476 1,430,876 — — 2,000 2,000 (1) On May 21, 2008, the Company’s stockholders approved an amendment to the 2006 Plan to increase the number of shares of the Company’s common stock authorized for issuance under the 2006 Plan by 1,000,000 shares from 800,000 shares to 1,800,000 shares. 111 The Company chose to follow the short-cut method prescribed by ASC 718 to calculate its pool of excess tax benefits available to absorb tax deficiencies recognized subsequent to the adoption of ASC 718 (“APIC pool”). There was no effect on the Company’s financial results for 2007, 2008 or 2009 related to the application of the short-cut method to determine its APIC pool balance. The Company calculates the fair value of stock options using the Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing formula. Stock-based compensation expense for stock options granted prior to December 31, 2005 is not reflected in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009 as all of the outstanding stock options granted prior to December 31, 2005 were vested at December 31, 2005. Stock-based compensation expense charged against income for stock options and stock grants awarded subsequent to December 31, 2005 (the date of acceleration of all of the then outstanding unvested stock options) for the years ended December 31, 2007 and 2008 was based on the grant-date fair value adjusted for estimated forfeitures based on awards expected to vest in accordance with the provisions of ASC 718, and amounted to approximately $1.4 million (net of tax of $996,000) and $6.3 million (net of tax of $2.5 million), respectively. On December 30, 2008, the Compensation Committee of the Board approved, effective as of that date, the acceleration of the vesting dates of all outstanding unvested stock options and restricted stock awarded subsequent to December 31, 2005 to eligible employees, directors and consultants, including stock options and restricted stock granted to executive officers and non-employee directors, under the 2006 Plan; provided the equity holder was actively an employee, director or consultant of the Company on December 30, 2008. All other terms of the stock options and restricted stock remained the same. Stock-based compensation expense charged against income for stock options and stock grants awarded subsequent to December 30, 2008 for the year ended December 31, 2009 was based on the grant-date fair value adjusted for estimated forfeitures based on awards expected to vest in accordance with the provisions of ASC 718 and totaled approximately $291,000 (net of tax of approximately $11,000). ASC 718 requires forfeitures to be estimated at the time of grant and revised as necessary in subsequent periods if the actual forfeitures differ from those estimates. For the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, the amount of excess tax benefits resulting from the exercise of stock options was approximately $680,000, $185,000 and $140,000, respectively. For the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009, the Company had tax shortfalls resulting from the exercise of stock options of approximately $1.5 million and $45,000, respectively. The excess tax benefits resulting from the exercise of stock options are reflected as cash flows from financing activities for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009 in the accompanying consolidated statements of cash flows. Prior to the acceleration of vesting in December 2008, stock-based compensation expense was amortized over the vesting period of three to four years with approximately 30% and 32% recorded as client services expense, and 70% and 68% as general and administrative expense in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2007 and 2008, respectively. For stock-based compensation awards granted subsequent to December 30, 2008, the associated expense is amortized over the vesting period of three years with approximately 55% recorded as client services expense, 36% as cost of non-emergency transportation services and 9% as general and administrative expense in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2009. 112 The following table summarizes the stock option activity for the year ended December 31, 2009: Year ended December 31, 2009 Number of Shares Under Option Weighted- average Exercise Price Weighted- average Remaining Contractual Term Aggregate Intrinsic Value Balance at beginning of period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Granted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exercised . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Forfeited or expired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,351,112 175,000 (48,100) (47,136) $21.45 11.17 3.12 20.16 Outstanding at end of period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,430,876 $20.85 Vested or expected to vest at end of period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,418,897 $20.94 Exercisable at end of period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,275,876 $22.04 6.5 6.5 6.2 $2,294,111 $2,244,388 $1,565,361 The weighted-average grant-date fair value for options granted, total intrinsic value and cash received by the Company related to options exercised during the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009 were as follows: Weighted-average grant date fair value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Options exercised: Year ended December 31, 2007 2008 2009 $ 10.75 $ 6.85 $ 8.52 Total intrinsic value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cash received . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,269,993 $2,353,495 $488,921 $469,320 $460,471 $149,667 The following table summarizes the activity of the shares and weighted-average grant date fair value of the Company’s non-vested common stock during the year ended December 31, 2009: Non-vested at December 31, 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Granted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Forfeited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Non-vested at December 31, 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weighted-average grant date fair value $ — $13.07 $ — $ — $13.07 Shares — 2,000 — — 2,000 Stock grants were not made prior to the approval of the 2006 Plan on May 25, 2006. The fair value of a non-vested stock grant is determined based on the closing market price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant. As of December 31, 2009, there was approximately $1.1 million of unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested stock-based compensation arrangements granted under the 2006 Plan. The cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 2.36 years. The total fair value of shares vested was $1.6 million, $10.0 million and $0 for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. 113 The fair value of each stock option awarded during the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009 was estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing formula and amortized over the option’s vesting periods with the following assumptions: Year ended December 31, 2007 2008 2009 Expected dividend yield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Expected stock price volatility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Risk-free interest rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Expected life of options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0% 0.0% 34.1%-34.5% 34.7%-89.3% 91.6%-95.7% 1.7%-2.7% 1.6%-3.5% 4.7%-4.9% 0.0% 6 5-6 6 The risk-free interest rate was based on the U.S. Treasury security rate in effect as of the date of grant. The expected lives of options and the expected stock price volatility were based on the Company’s historical data. Implied volatility was not considered due to the low volume of traded options on the Company’s common stock. 14. Earnings (Loss) Per Share The following table details the computation of basic and diluted earnings (loss) per share: Year ended December 31, 2007 2008 2009 Numerator: Net income (loss) available to common stockholders, basic and diluted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,388,674 $(155,604,673) $21,125,607 Denominator: Denominator for basic earnings (loss) per share—weighted- average shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,865,402 12,531,869 13,130,092 Effect of dilutive securities: Common stock options and restricted stock awards . . . . . . . 181,719 — 81,301 Denominator for diluted earnings (loss) per share—adjusted weighted-average shares assumed conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,047,121 12,531,869 13,211,393 Basic earnings (loss) per share . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diluted earnings (loss) per share . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ $ 1.21 1.19 $ $ (12.42) $ (12.42) $ 1.61 1.60 All potentially dilutive securities were anti-dilutive for purposes of computing diluted earnings per share for the year ended December 31, 2008 as the Company recorded a net loss available to common stockholders for this period. For the years ended December 31, 2007 and 2009, employee stock options to purchase 21,826 and 11 shares, respectively, of common stock were not included in the computation of diluted earnings per share as the exercise price of these options was greater than the average fair value of the common stock for the period and, therefore, the effect of these options would have been anti-dilutive. The effect of issuing 1,678,740 shares of common stock on an assumed conversion basis related to the Notes was not included in the computation of diluted earnings per share for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009 as it would have been antidilutive. 15. Leases Sale-leaseback The Company sold its corporate office building in Tucson, Arizona in 2005 and leased the office space back. As a result of this transaction, a gain of approximately $185,000 was deferred and is being amortized to income in proportion to rent charged over the initial seven year term of the lease. Approximately $27,000 of the realized gain 114 was recognized for each of the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. At December 31, 2009, the remaining deferred gain of approximately $75,000 is shown as “Deferred revenue” in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet. The minimum lease payments required by this lease are reflected in the future minimum payments under the non-cancellable operating leases table below. Capital leases The Company acquired leases for certain vehicles classified as capital leases in connection with the acquisition of LogistiCare in December 2007. Additionally, the Company has various capital leases related to office equipment. The cost of vehicles and equipment under capital leases is included in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2008 and 2009 as property and equipment and was approximately $313,000 and $75,000, respectively. Accumulated amortization of the leased vehicles and equipment at December 31, 2008 and 2009 was approximately $88,000 and $13,000, respectively. Amortization of assets under capital leases is included in depreciation and amortization expense in the consolidated statement of operations for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009. Capital lease obligations of approximately $100,000 and $65,000 as of December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively, are included in “Accrued expenses” and “Other long-term liabilities” in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. Operating leases The Company leases many of its operating and office facilities for various terms under non-cancelable operating lease agreements. The leases expire in various years and provide for renewal options. In the normal course of business, it is expected that these leases will be renewed or replaced by leases on other properties. The operating leases provide for increases in future minimum annual rental payments based on defined increases in the Consumer Price Index, subject to certain minimum increases. Several of these lease agreements contain provisions for periods in which rent payments are reduced. The total amount of rental payments due over the lease term is being charged to rent expense on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease. The difference between rent expense recorded and the amount paid as of December 31, 2009 was approximately $334,000 and was included in “Accrued expenses” in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. Also, the lease agreements generally require the Company to pay executory costs such as real estate taxes, insurance, and repairs. Future minimum payments under capital leases and non-cancelable operating leases with initial terms of one year or more consisted of the following at December 31, 2009: 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thereafter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Capital Leases $22,989 22,989 20,565 15,460 7,127 — Operating Leases $12,005,955 8,031,831 4,560,178 2,358,301 763,866 488,871 Total future minimum lease payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,130 $28,209,002 Less: amount representing interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,096 Present value of net minimum lease payments (including current portion of $13,291) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $65,034 Rent expense related to operating leases was approximately $10.0 million, $15.1 million and $16.8 million, for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. 115 16. Retirement Plan Social Services The Company maintains qualified defined contribution plans under Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“IRC”), for all employees of its Social Services operating segment as well as corporate personnel. The Company, at its discretion, may make a matching contribution to the plans. The Company’s contributions to the plans were approximately $115,000, $375,000 and $399,000, for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. On August 31, 2007, the Board adopted The Providence Service Corporation Deferred Compensation Plan (the “Deferred Compensation Plan”) for the Company’s eligible employees and independent contractors or a participating employer (as defined in the Deferred Compensation Plan). Under the Deferred Compensation Plan participants may defer all or a portion of their base salary, service bonus, performance-based compensation earned in a period of 12 months or more, commissions and, in the case of independent contractors, compensation reportable on Form 1099. As of December 31, 2009, there were seven participants in the Deferred Compensation Plan. NET Services The Company maintains a qualified defined contribution plan under Section 401(k) of the IRC for all employees of its NET Services operating segment. Under this plan, the Company may contribute an amount equal to 25% of the first 5% of participant elective contributions. At the end of each plan year, the Company may also make a contribution on a discretionary basis on behalf of participants who have made elective contributions for the plan year. In no event will participant shares of the Company’s matching contribution exceed 1.25% of participants’ compensation for the plan year. For the period from December 7, 2007 (effective date of the LogistiCare acquisition) to December 31, 2007, the Company made contributions to this plan in the amount of approximately $6,000 and for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009, the Company made contributions to this plan totaling approximately $107,000 and $213,000, respectively. The Company also maintains a 409 (A) Deferred Compensation Rabbi Trust Plan for highly compensated employees of its NET Services operating segment. This plan was put in place to compensate for the inability of highly compensated employees to take full advantage of the Company’s 401(k) plan. As of December 31, 2009, there were 19 highly compensated employees who participated in this plan. 17. Income Taxes The federal and state income tax provision (benefit) is summarized as follows: Year ended December 31, 2007 2008 2009 Federal: Current . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deferred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,471,148 1,515,996 $ 287,101 (10,274,362) $ 8,325,467 2,320,618 6,987,144 (9,987,261) 10,646,085 State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Current Deferred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,793,575 267,529 $ 2,199,934 (4,092,234) $ 1,913,762 (274,230) 2,061,104 (1,892,300) 1,639,532 Foreign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Current Deferred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 701,401 (27,668) $ (245,018) $ (371,785) 253,226 (186,963) 673,733 (431,981) (118,559) Total provision (benefit) for income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9,721,981 $(12,311,542) $12,167,058 116 A reconciliation of the provision (benefit) for income taxes with amounts determined by applying the statutory U.S. federal income tax rate to income before income taxes is as follows: Year Ended December 31, 2007 2008 2009 Federal statutory rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35% 35% 35% Federal income tax at statutory rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Goodwill impairment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Change in valuation allowance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . State income taxes, net of federal benefit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Difference between federal statutory and foreign tax rate . . . . . . . . . . Stock option expense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meals and entertainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Provision (benefit) for income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8,438,731 — 60,000 1,237,604 (68,083) — 124,138 (70,409) $9,721,981 $(58,790,996) 46,634,045 54,165 (1,229,995) 29,340 837,047 95,619 59,233 $(12,311,542) $11,652,434 — 95,501 635,692 (33,533) 96,380 92,587 (372,003) $12,167,058 Effective income tax rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40% 7% 37% The Company’s effective income tax rate for 2008 was significantly lower than 2007 and 2009. For 2008, approximately $133.2 million of the total goodwill impairment charge of approximately $156.7 million was not deductible for income tax purposes as the goodwill was related to the Company’s acquisition of the equity interest in several businesses. As a result, the Company’s effective income tax rate for 2008 decreased. Deferred income taxes reflect the net tax effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes. Significant components of the Company’s deferred tax assets and liabilities are as follows: Deferred tax assets: Net operating loss carryforwards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accounts receivable allowance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Property and equipment depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accrued items and prepaids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nonqualified stock options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AMT credit carryforward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interest rate swap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deferred tax liabilities: Prepaids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Property and equipment depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Goodwill and intangibles amortization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Net deferred tax liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Less valuation allowance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Net deferred tax liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 31, 2008 2009 $ 4,563,000 1,492,000 213,000 1,186,000 1,032,000 333,000 653,000 203,000 9,675,000 $ 1,579,000 1,520,000 292,000 2,537,000 993,000 — 145,000 226,000 7,292,000 767,000 337,000 13,214,000 274,000 14,592,000 (4,917,000) (422,000) 876,000 1,602,000 12,138,000 340,000 14,956,000 (7,664,000) (518,000) $ (5,339,000) $ (8,182,000) Current deferred tax assets, net of $252,000 and $340,000 valuation allowance for 2008 and 2009, respectively . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 4,757,000 $ 3,558,000 Noncurrent deferred tax liabilities, net of $170,000 and $178,000 valuation allowance for 2008 and 2009, respectively . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (10,096,000) (11,740,000) $ (5,339,000) $ (8,182,000) 117 At December 31, 2009, the Company had approximately $731,000 of federal net operating loss carryforwards which expire in years 2011 through 2025 and $32.8 million of state net operating loss carryforwards which expire as follows: 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thereafter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,087,000 502,000 245,000 30,962,000 $32,796,000 As a result of statutory “ownership changes” (as defined for purposes of Section 382 of the IRC), the Company’s ability to utilize its federal net operating losses is restricted. Realization is dependent on generating sufficient taxable income prior to expiration of the loss carryforwards. Although realization is not assured, management believes it is more likely than not that all of the deferred tax assets will be realized, to the extent they are not covered by a valuation allowance. The amount of the deferred tax asset considered realizable, however, could be reduced in the near term if estimates of future taxable income during the carryforward period are reduced. The net change in the total valuation allowance for the year ended December 31, 2009 was $96,000. The valuation allowance includes $10.8 million of state net operating loss carryforwards for which the Company has concluded that it is more likely than not that these net operating loss carryforwards will not be realized in the ordinary course of operations. The Company will continue to assess the valuation allowance and to the extent it is determined that the valuation allowance should be adjusted an appropriate adjustment will be recorded. The Company recognized certain excess tax benefits related to stock option plans for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009 in the amount of $680,000, $185,000 and $140,000, respectively. Such benefits were recorded as a reduction of income taxes payable and an increase in additional paid-in-capital and are included in “Exercise of employee stock options” in the accompanying statements of stockholders’ equity and comprehensive income (loss). The Company recognized a tax shortfall related to stock option plans for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009 in the amount of $1.5 million and $45,000. This was recorded as a reduction of deferred tax assets and a decrease to additional paid-in-capital and is included in “Exercise of employee stock options” in the accompanying statements of stockholders’ equity and comprehensive income (loss). The Company is not aware of any issues that would cause a significant amount of unrecognized tax benefits to be recognized during the next twelve months. The Company recognizes interest and penalties as a component of income tax expense. During the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, the Company recognized approximately $0, $0 and $7,000, respectively, in interest and penalties. The Company had approximately $0 and $7,000 for the payment of penalties and interest accrued as of December 31, 2008 and 2009. A reconciliation of the liability for unrecognized income tax benefit is as follows: Unrecognized tax benefits, beginning of year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Increase (decrease) related to prior year positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Increase related to current year tax positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Settlements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unrecognized tax benefits, end of year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 31, 2007 2008 2009 $— — — — $— $ — 169,000 — — $169,000 (44,000) — (6,000) $169,000 $119,000 As of December 31, 2009, none of the unrecognized tax benefits would impact the Company’s effective tax rate if recognized. 118 The Company is subject to taxation in the United States, Canada and various state jurisdictions. The statute of limitations is generally three years for the United States, four years for Canada, and between eighteen months and four years for states. The Company is subject to the following material taxing jurisdictions: United States, Canada, California, and Virginia. The tax years that remain open for examination by the United States, and Virginia jurisdictions are years ended December 31, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009; the California filings that remain open to examination are years ended December 31, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. Residual United States income taxes have not been provided on undistributed earnings of the Company’s foreign subsidiary. These earnings are considered to be indefinitely reinvested and, accordingly, no provision for United States federal and state income taxes has been provided thereon. Upon distribution of those earnings in the form of dividends or otherwise, the Company would be subject to both United States income taxes and withholding taxes payable to Canada less an adjustment for foreign tax credits. As of December 31, 2009 there were no undistributed earnings in the foreign subsidiary as it had cumulative losses. 18. Commitments and Contingencies The Company is involved in various claims and legal actions arising in the ordinary course of business. In the opinion of management, the ultimate disposition of these matters will not have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position, results of operations, or liquidity. The Company has two deferred compensation plans for management and highly compensated employees. These deferred compensation plans are unfunded; therefore, benefits are paid from the general assets of the Company. The total of participant deferrals, which is reflected in “Other long-term liabilities” in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets, was approximately $273,000 and $457,000 at December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively. The Company may be obligated to pay an amount up to $650,000 to the sellers under an earn out provision pursuant to a formula specified in an asset purchase agreement dated July 1, 2009 by which the Company acquired certain assets of an entity located in California. The earn out payment as such term is defined in the asset purchase agreement, if earned, will be paid in cash. The earn out period ends on December 31, 2013. If the contingency is resolved in accordance with the related provisions of the asset purchase agreement and the additional consideration becomes distributable, the Company will record the fair value of the consideration issued as an additional cost to acquire the associated assets, which will be charged to earnings. 19. Transactions with Related Parties Mr. Geringer, one of the Company’s directors, resigned from his position as a member of the Board on April 10, 2008. Prior to his resignation the following transaction was deemed to be a related party transaction. Mr. Geringer is a holder of capital stock and the non-executive chairman of the board of Qualifacts Systems, Inc. (“Qualifacts”). Qualifacts is a specialized healthcare information technology provider that entered into a software license, maintenance and servicing agreement with the Company. This agreement became effective on March 1, 2002 and was to continue for five years. Effective January 10, 2006, a new software license, maintenance and servicing agreement between the Company and Qualifacts was signed and continues for five years. This agreement replaces the agreement which began on March 1, 2002 and may be terminated by either party without cause upon 90 days written notice and for cause immediately upon written notice. The new agreement grants the Company access to additional software functionality and licenses for additional sites. Qualifacts provided the Company services and the Company incurred expenses in the amount of approximately $230,000 and $245,000 for the years ended December 31, 2007 and 2008, respectively, under the agreement. Upon the Company’s acquisition of Maple Services, LLC in August 2005, Mr. McCusker, the Company’s chief executive officer, Mr. Deitch, the Company’s chief financial officer, and Mr. Norris, the Company’s chief operating 119 officer, became members of the board of directors of the not-for-profit organization (Maple Star Colorado, Inc.) formerly managed by Maple Services, LLC. Maple Star Colorado, Inc. is a non-profit member organization governed by its board of directors and the state laws of Colorado in which it is incorporated. Maple Star Colorado, Inc. is not a federally tax exempt organization and neither the Internal Revenue Service rules governing IRC Section 501(c)(3) exempt organizations, nor any other IRC sections applicable to tax exempt organizations, apply to this organization. The Company provided management services to Maple Star Colorado, Inc. under a management agreement for consideration in the amount of approximately $393,000, $509,000 and $292,000 for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively. Amounts due to the Company from Maple Star Colorado, Inc. for management services provided to it by the Company at December 31, 2008 and 2009 were approximately $448,000 and $281,000, respectively. The Company is using a twin propeller KingAir airplane operated by Las Montanas Aviation, LLC for approved business travel purposes on an as needed basis subject to a joint operating agreement and regulated by Federal Aviation Administration Code of Federal Regulations 91:501. Las Montanas Aviation, LLC is owned by Mr. McCusker. The Company currently pays a flat fee of $9,000 per month plus incidental costs such as fuel and landing fees. For the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, the Company expensed amounts related to Las Montanas Aviation, LLC of approximately $133,000, $76,000 and $119,000, respectively, for use of the airplane for business travel purposes. The plane is available for use related to the Company’s business only when commercial flights are not practical. During 2009, the Company utilized the plane ten times. The logged hours for these trips totaled 31.5 for an aggregated cost of approximately $119,000. 20. Subsequent Events On January 7, 2010, the Board authorized a voluntary prepayment on the term loan under the credit and guaranty agreement, as amended, of $5.0 million. The prepayment was made on January 11, 2010. Effective March 11, 2010, the Company entered into an interest rate swap to convert its floating rate long-term debt to fixed rate debt. The purpose of this instrument is to hedge the variability of the Company’s future earnings and cash flows caused by movements in interest rates applied to its floating rate long-term debt. The Company holds this derivative only for the purpose of hedging such risks, not for speculation. The Company entered into the interest rate swap with a notional amount of $63.4 million maturing on December 13, 2010. Under the swap agreement, the Company receives interest equivalent to one-month LIBOR and pays a fixed rate of interest of .58% with settlement occurring quarterly. The Company has designated the interest rate swap as a cash flow hedge under ASC 815. Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure. None. Item 9A. Controls and Procedures. (a) Evaluation of disclosure controls and procedures The Company, under the supervision and with the participation of its management, including its principal executive officer and principal financial officer, evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of its disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) as of the end of the period covered by this report (December 31, 2009) (“Disclosure Controls”). Based upon the Disclosure Controls evaluation, the principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded that the Disclosure Controls are effective in reaching a reasonable level of assurance that (i) information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms and (ii) information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s 120 management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. (b) Changes in internal controls The principal executive officer and principal financial officer also conducted an evaluation of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (“Internal Control”) to determine whether any changes in Internal Control occurred during the quarter ended December 31, 2009 that have materially affected or which are reasonably likely to materially affect Internal Control. Based on that evaluation, there has been no such change during the quarter ended December 31, 2009. (c) Limitations on the Effectiveness of Controls Control systems, no matter how well conceived and operated, are designed to provide a reasonable, but not an absolute, level of assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the Company have been detected. Because of the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected. The Company conducts periodic evaluations of its internal controls to enhance, where necessary, its procedures and controls. (d) Management’s report on internal control over financial reporting Management’s report on internal control over financial reporting is presented in Part II, Item 8, of this report and is hereby incorporated by reference. (e) Attestation report of the registered public accounting firm The attestation report of the registered public accounting firm is presented in Part II, Item 8, of this report and is hereby incorporated by reference. Item 9B. Other Information. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders On November 19, 2009, we held a Special Meeting of Stockholders, or Special Meeting, for the following purposes: a) To ratify the adoption by our board of directors, or Board, of the Preferred Stock Rights Agreement, dated December 9, 2008, and as amended on October 9, 2009, by and between The Providence Service Corporation and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as rights agent, or Rights Agreement. The proposal to ratify the adoption by the Board of the Rights Agreement was approved by the stockholders as follows: Votes For . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Votes Against . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abstentions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Broker Non-Votes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,549,549 2,308,406 2,969 — 121 b) To approve an adjournment of the Special Meeting, if necessary, to allow additional time for further solicitation of proxies in the event there are insufficient votes present at the Special Meeting, in person or by proxy, to ratify the adoption of the Rights Agreement (referred to as the Authorization to Adjourn the Special Meeting). The proposal to approve the Authorization to Adjourn the Special Meeting was approved by the stockholders as follows: Votes For . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Votes Against . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abstentions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Broker Non-Votes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,438,451 2,417,454 5,019 — Amendments to Bylaws On March 10, 2010, the Board approved amendments to our amended and restated bylaws, referred to as the Restated Bylaws, which amendments were effective upon approval and adoption by the Board and are attached as Exhibit 3.2 to this report on Form 10-K. To avoid the potential for confusion as to what are the requisite window periods for the delivery of an advance notice of either a stockholder proposal or nomination of a candidate for election as a director in connection with an Annual Meeting of Stockholders, Article I, Section 1.07(c) (Notice of Stockholder Proposals) and Article II, Section 2.02(a)(2) (Notice of Nominations for Directors) were amended to remove the prior references to the advance notice dates for stockholder proposals and director nominations that were no longer applicable to stockholder meetings held after the 2009 annual meeting and to clarify that (i) stockholders must provide us with advance notice of proposals and director nominations intended for consideration at an annual meeting of stockholders during the 60 calendar day period ending on the 60th calendar day prior to the first anniversary of the immediately preceding year’s annual meeting, or (ii) in the event that no annual meeting was held in the previous year or the annual meeting is called for a date that is more than 30 calendar days earlier or more than 60 calendar days later than such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder in order to be timely must be so delivered or received not earlier than the close of business on the 120th calendar day prior to the date of such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the 60th calendar day prior to the date of such annual meeting, or if the first public disclosure of the date of such annual meeting is less than 70 calendar days prior to the date of such annual meeting, the 10th calendar day following the day on which public disclosure of the date of such annual meeting is first made by us. These amendments to the Restated Bylaws do not modify the advance notice deadlines previously disclosed in our 2009 Annual Meeting proxy statement. As previously disclosed, in order for a stockholder to bring a proposal (other than proposals sought to be included in our 2010 Annual Meeting proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 of the Exchange Act or otherwise) before, or make a nomination at, the 2010 Annual Meeting of stockholders, such stockholder must deliver a written notice of notice of such proposal and/or nomination to, or it must be mailed and received by, our Corporate Secretary at our principal executive offices, located at 5524 East Fourth Street, Tucson, Arizona 85711, no earlier than February 16, 2010 and no later than the close of business on April 16, 2010. Stockholders are also advised to review our Restated Bylaws, which contain additional requirements about advance notice of stockholder proposals and director nominations. 122 PART III Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance. Information required by this Item is incorporated by reference from our 2010 Proxy Statement including, but not necessarily limited to, the sections “Proposal 1 – Election of Directors” and “Corporate Governance”. Code of Ethics We have adopted a code of ethics that applies to our senior management, including our chief executive officer, chief financial officer, controller and persons performing similar functions. Copies of our code of ethics are available without charge upon written request directed to Kate Blute, Director of Investor and Public Relations, at The Providence Service Corporation, 5524 East Fourth Street, Tucson, AZ, 85711. Item 11. Executive Compensation. Information required by this Item is incorporated by reference from our 2010 Proxy Statement including, but necessarily limited to, the sections “Corporate Governance” and “Executive Compensation”. Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters. Information required by this Item is incorporated by reference from our 2010 Proxy Statement including, but not necessarily limited to, the sections “Voting Securities of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management”. Equity Compensation Plan Information The following table provides certain information as of December 31, 2009 with respect to our equity based compensation plans. Plan category (a) Number of securities to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options, warrants and rights Equity compensation plans approved by security holders(1)(2) . . . . . . . Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders . . . . . . . . . 1,430,876 — Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,430,876 (c) Number of securities remaining available for future issuance under equity compensation plans (excluding securities reflected in column (a)) 23,628 — 23,628 (b) Weighted- average exercise price of outstanding options, warrants and rights $20.83 — $20.83 (1) Columns (a) and (b) include 1,430,876 shares issuable upon exercise of outstanding stock options. (2) The number of shares shown in column (c) represents the number of shares available for issuance pursuant to stock options and other stock-based awards that could be granted in the future under the 2006 Long-Term Incentive Plan, as amended. No additional stock options or other stock-based awards may be granted under the 1997 Stock Option and Incentive Plan and 2003 Stock Option Plan. 123 Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence. Information required by this Item is incorporated by reference from our 2010 Proxy Statement including, but not necessarily limited to, the section “Corporate Governance”. Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services. Information required by this Item is incorporated by reference from our 2010 Proxy Statement including, but not necessarily limited to, the section “Independent Public Accountants”. 124 Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules. (a)(1) Financial Statements PART IV The following consolidated financial statements including footnotes are included in Item 8. • Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 2008 and 2009; • Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009; • Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity and Comprehensive Income (Loss) at December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009; and • Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009. (2) Financial Statement Schedules Schedule II Valuation and Qualifying Accounts Additions Balance at beginning of period Charged to costs and expenses Charged to other accounts Deductions Balance at end of period Year Ended December 31, 2009: Allowance for doubtful accounts . . . . . . $3,433,689 422,428 Deferred tax valuation allowance . . . . . $3,827,626 95,402 Year Ended December 31, 2008: Allowance for doubtful accounts . . . . . . $2,615,681 368,263 Deferred tax valuation allowance . . . . . $3,768,117 54,165 Year Ended December 31, 2007: Allowance for doubtful accounts . . . . . . $5,336,864 371,452 Deferred tax valuation allowance . . . . . $ 675,378 — $3,615,325(1) $7,975,249(4) $2,901,391 517,830 — — $1,635,782(2) $4,585,891(4) $3,433,689 422,428 — — $ 980,245(3) $4,376,806(4) $2,615,681 368,263 3,189 — Notes: (1) Amounts primarily include the allowance for contractual adjustments related to our non-emergency transportation services operating segment that are recorded as adjustments to non-emergency transportation services revenue as well as certain reclassifications within the “Accounts Receivable-billed” line item of the consolidated balance sheets made to conform with the current period presentation of the allowance for doubtful accounts in this schedule related to our correctional services business. (2) Amount primarily represents the allowance for contractual adjustments related to our non-emergency transportation management services operating segment that are recorded as adjustments to non-emergency transportation services revenue. (3) Beginning balance for allowance for doubtful accounts for Maple Star Oregon and LogistiCare, Inc. (4) Write-offs, net of recoveries. All other schedules are omitted because they are not applicable or the required information is shown in our financial statements or the related notes thereto. 125 (3) Exhibits Exhibit Number 2.1(1) 2.2(2) 2.3(3) 2.4(4) 2.5(5) 2.6(6) Description Purchase Agreement dated as of February 1, 2006 by and between The Providence Service Corporation and A to Z In-Home Tutoring, LLC, Scott Hines and Ann-Riley Caldwell, as amended. (Schedules and exhibits are omitted pursuant to Regulation S-K, Item 601(b)(2); The Providences Service Corporation agrees to furnish supplementally a copy of such schedules and/or exhibits to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request.) Purchase Agreement dated as of April 25, 2006 by and between The Providence Service Corporation and W.D. Management, L.L.C., Tom R. Goss, Bontiea Goss, Jane A Pille, Keith F. Noble and Marilyn L. Nolan. (Schedules and exhibits are omitted pursuant to Regulation S-K, Item 601(b)(2); The Providences Service Corporation agrees to furnish supplementally a copy of such schedules and/or exhibits to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request.) Asset Purchase Agreement dated as of August 4, 2006 by and between Providence Community Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Providence Service Corporation, and Ross Education, LLC and The Providence Service Corporation (as Guarantor). (Schedules and exhibits are omitted pursuant to Regulation S-K, Item 601(b)(2); The Providences Service Corporation agrees to furnish supplementally a copy of such schedules and/or exhibits to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request.) Share Purchase Agreement dated as of August 1, 2007 by and between The Providence Service Corporation, 0798576 B.C. Ltd., PSC of Canada Exchange Corp., WCG International Consultants Ltd., Ian Ferguson, Elizabeth Ferguson, James Rae, Robert Skene, Walrus Holdings Ltd., Darlene Bailey, John Parker, Jenco Enterprises Ltd. and Ian Ferguson, as the sellers representative. (Schedules and exhibits are omitted pursuant to Regulation S-K, Item 601(b)(2); The Providence Service Corporation agrees to furnish supplementally a copy of such schedules and/or exhibits to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request.) Asset Purchase Agreement dated as of October 5, 2007 by and among Children’s Behavioral Health, Inc., Family & Children’s Services, Inc. and Mary L. White, as shareholder. (Schedules and exhibits are omitted pursuant to Regulation S-K, Item 601(b)(2); The Providence Service Corporation agrees to furnish supplementally a copy of such schedules and/or exhibits to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request.) Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of November 6, 2007, by and among The Providence Service Corporation, Charter LCI Corporation, CLCI Agent, LLC, as Stockholders’ Representative, and PRSC Acquisition Corporation, as amended. (Schedules and exhibits are omitted pursuant to Regulation S-K, Item 601(b)(2); The Providence Service Corporation agrees to furnish supplementally a copy of such schedules and/or exhibits to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request.) 3.1(7) Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of The Providence Service Corporation, including Certificate of Designation of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, as filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on December 10, 2008. 3.2 Amended and Restated Bylaws of The Providence Service Corporation, effective March 10, 2010. 4.1(8) Convertible Senior Subordinated Note Indenture, dated November 13, 2007, between The Providence Service Corporation and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee. 4.2(9) Form of Note (included as Exhibit A to the Indenture, listed as Exhibit 4.1 hereto). 4.3(10) Preferred Stock Rights Agreement, dated as of December 9, 2008, by and between The Providence Service Corporation and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as Rights Agent. 126 4.4(11) Amendment No. 1 to the Preferred Stock Rights Agreement, dated as of October 9, 2009, by and between The Providence Service Corporation and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as Rights Agent. +10.1(12) The Providence Service Corporation Stock Option and Incentive Plan, as amended. +10.2(13) 2003 Stock Option Plan, as amended. +10.3(14) The Providence Service Corporation 2006 Long-Term Incentive Plan, as amended. +10.4(15) Providence Service Corporation Deferred Compensation Plan. 10.6(9) Note Purchase Agreement, dated November 6, 2007, by and among The Providence Service Corporation and the purchasers named therein. (Schedules and exhibits are omitted pursuant to Regulation S-K, Item 601(b)(2); The Providence Service Corporation agrees to furnish supplementally a copy of such schedules and/or exhibits to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request.) 10.7(8) Amendment No. 1 to Note Purchase Agreement, dated November 13, 2007, by and among The Providence Service Corporation and the Purchasers named therein. 10.8(8) Registration Rights Agreement, dated November 13, 2007, by and among The Providence Service Corporation and the Purchasers named therein. 10.9(16) Credit and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of December 7, 2007, by and among The Providence Service Corporation, CIT Healthcare LLC, Bank of America, N.A. and SunTrust Bank, ING Capital LLC and Royal Bank of Canada, the other lenders party thereto and CIT Capital Securities LLC, as sole lead arranger and bookrunner. (Certain schedules and exhibits are omitted pursuant to Regulation S-K, Item 601(b)(2); The Providence Service Corporation agrees to furnish supplementally a copy of such schedules and/or exhibits to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request.) 10.10(17) Amendment No. 1 dated as of March 11, 2009 to the Credit and Guarantee Agreement among The Providence Service Corporation, CIT Healthcare LLC, Bank of America, N.A. SunTrust Bank, ING Capital LLC and Royal Bank of Canada. +10.12(18) Employment Agreement dated March 22, 2007 between The Providence Service Corporation and Fletcher Jay McCusker. +10.13(7) Amendment No. 1 dated March 13, 2009 to the Employment Agreement dated March 22, 2007 between The Providence Service Corporation and Fletcher Jay McCusker. +10.14(18) Employment Agreement dated March 22, 2007 between The Providence Service Corporation and Michael N. Deitch. +10.15(7) Amendment No. 1 dated March 13, 2009 to the Employment Agreement dated March 22, 2007 between The Providence Service Corporation and Michael N. Deitch. +10.16(18) Employment Agreement dated March 22, 2007 between The Providence Service Corporation and Fred D. Furman. +10.17(7) Amendment No. 1 dated March 13, 2009 to the Employment Agreement dated March 22, 2007 between The Providence Service Corporation and Fred D. Furman. +10.18(18) Employment Agreement dated March 22, 2007 between The Providence Service Corporation and Craig A. Norris. +10.19(7) Amendment No. 1 dated March 13, 2009 to the Employment Agreement dated March 22, 2007 between The Providence Service Corporation and Craig A. Norris. 127 +10.20 Employment Agreement of Herman Schwarz dated as of November 6, 2007. +10.21 +10.22 Amendment No. 1 dated January 1, 2009 to the Employment Agreement of Herman Schwarz dated as of November 6, 2007. Amendment No. 2 dated May 19, 2009 to the Employment Agreement of Herman Schwarz dated as of November 6, 2007. +10.23(19) Annual Incentive Compensation Plan. +10.24(20) Form of Restricted Stock Agreements, as amended. +10.25(21) Form of Stock Option Agreements. 10.26(22) Consulting Agreement dated as of April 11, 2008 between The Providence Service Corporation and Steven I. Geringer. 12.1 21.1 23.1 23.2 31.1 31.2 32.1 32.2 Statement re Computation of Ratios of Earnings to Fixed Charges. Subsidiaries of the Registrant. Consent of KPMG LLP. Consent of McGladrey & Pullen, LLP. Certification pursuant to Securities Exchange Act Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14 of the Chief Executive Officer. Certification pursuant to Securities Exchange Act Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14 of the Chief Financial Officer. Certification pursuant to 18 U.S.C Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes- Oxley Act of 2002, of the Chief Executive Officer. Certification pursuant to 18 U.S.C Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes- Oxley Act of 2002, of the Chief Financial Officer. + Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement. (1) Incorporated by reference from an exhibit to the registrant’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 16, 2006. Incorporated by reference from an exhibit to the registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 1, 2006. Incorporated by reference from an exhibit to the registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 10, 2006. Incorporated by reference from an exhibit to the registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 7, 2007. Incorporated by reference from an exhibit to the registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 12, 2007. Incorporated by reference from an exhibit to the registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 12, 2007. Incorporated by reference from an exhibit to the registrant’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 30, 2009. Incorporated by reference from an exhibit to the registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 15, 2007. (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) 128 (9) Incorporated by reference from an exhibit to the registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 7, 2007. (10) Incorporated by reference from an exhibit to the registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 10, 2008. (11) Incorporated by reference from an exhibit to the registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 13, 2009. (12) Incorporated by reference from an exhibit to the registrant’s registration statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-106286) filed with the Securities Exchange Commission on June 19, 2003. (13) Incorporated by reference from an exhibit to the registrant’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2005 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 9, 2005. (14) Incorporated by reference from an appendix to the registrant’s definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 25, 2008. (15) Incorporated by reference from an exhibit to the Company’s registration statement on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 31, 2007. (16) Incorporated by reference from an exhibit to the registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 12, 2007. (17) Incorporated by reference from an exhibit to the registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 16, 2009. (18) Incorporated by reference from an exhibit to the registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 28, 2007. (19) Incorporated by reference from an exhibit to the registrant’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 14, 2008. (20) Incorporated by reference from an exhibit to the registrant’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 16, 2007. (21) Incorporated by reference from an exhibit to the registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 16, 2006. (22) Incorporated by reference from an exhibit to the registrant’s current report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 11, 2008. 129 Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized. SIGNATURES THE PROVIDENCE SERVICE CORPORATION By: /s/ FLETCHER JAY McCUSKER Fletcher Jay McCusker Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer Dated: March 12, 2010 Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated. Signature Title Date /S/ FLETCHER JAY MCCUSKER Fletcher Jay McCusker Chairman of the Board; Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) March 12, 2010 /S/ MICHAEL N. DEITCH Michael N. Deitch Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) March 12, 2010 /S/ TERENCE J. CRYAN Terence J. Cryan /S/ HUNTER HURST, III Hunter Hurst, III /S/ KRISTI L. MEINTS Kristi L. Meints /S/ CRAIG A. NORRIS Craig A. Norris /S/ WARREN S. RUSTAND Warren S. Rustand /S/ RICHARD SINGLETON Richard Singleton Director Director Director March 12, 2010 March 12, 2010 March 12, 2010 Director; Chief Operating Officer March 12, 2010 March 12, 2010 March 12, 2010 Director Director 130 Name of Subsidiary Providence Community Corrections, Inc. (f/k/a Camelot Care Corporation) Cypress Management Services, Inc. Family Preservation Services, Inc. Family Preservation Services of Florida, Inc. Family Preservation Services of North Carolina, Inc. Family Preservation Services of West Virginia, Inc. Providence of Arizona, Inc. Providence Service Corporation of Delaware Providence Service Corporation of Maine Providence Service Corporation of Oklahoma Providence Service Corporation of Texas Rio Grande Management Company, LLC Family Preservation Services of Washington DC, Inc. Dockside Services, Inc. Providence Community Services, Inc. (f/k/a Pottsville Behavioral Counseling Group, Inc.) Providence Community Services, LLC College Community Services Choices Group, Inc. Providence Management Corporation of Florida Providence Service Corporation of New Jersey, Inc. Social Services Providers Captive Insurance Co. Drawbridges Counseling Services, LLC Oasis Comprehensive Foster Care, LLC Children’s Behavioral Health, Inc. Maple Star Nevada Transitional Family Services, Inc. AlphaCare Resources, Inc. Family-Based Strategies, Inc. A to Z In-Home Tutoring, LLC W. D. Management, LLC 0798576 B.C. LTD PSC of Canada Exchange Corp. Camelot Care Centers, Inc. Family & Children’s Services, Inc. Charter LCI Corporation Health Trans, Inc. LogistiCare, Inc. LogistiCare Solutions, LLC Provado Technologies, Inc. Provado Insurance Service, Inc. Providence Service Corporation of Alabama Red Top Transportation, Inc. WCG International Consultants Ltd. Providence Service Corporation of Louisiana AmericanWork, Inc. LogistiCare Solutions Independent Practice Association, LLC EXHIBIT 21.1 State Incorporation Delaware Florida Virginia Florida North Carolina West Virginia Arizona Delaware Maine Oklahoma Texas Arizona Dist. of Columbia Indiana Pennsylvania California California Delaware Florida New Jersey Arizona Kentucky Kentucky Pennsylvania Nevada Georgia Georgia Delaware Nevada Missouri British Columbia, Canada British Columbia, Canada Illinois Pennsylvania Delaware Delaware Delaware Delaware Florida South Carolina Alabama Florida British Columbia, Canada Louisiana Delaware New York Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm Exhibit 23.1 The Board of Directors The Providence Service Corporation: We consent to the incorporation by reference in registration statements (Nos. 333-151079, 333-112586, 333-117974, 333-127852, 333-135126, and 333-145843) on Form S-8 and registration statement (No. 333-148092) on Form S-3 of The Providence Service Corporation (the Company) of our reports dated March 12, 2010, with respect to the consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and comprehensive income (loss), and cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2009, and all related financial statement schedules, and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2009, which reports appear in the December 31, 2009 annual report on Form 10-K of the Company. Our report on the consolidated financial statements dated March 12, 2010 contains an explanatory paragraph that states that the Company adopted the disclosure provisions of SFAS No. 157, Fair Value Measurements (included in FASB ASC Topic 320, Investments-Debt and Equity Securities). Phoenix, Arizona March 12, 2010 /s/ KPMG LLP Exhibit 23.2 Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm We consent to the incorporation by reference in Registration Statement (No. 333-112586, No. 333-117974, No. 333-127852, No. 333-135126, No. 333-145843, and No. 333-151079) on Form S-8 and Registration Statement No. 333-148092 on Form S-3 of The Providence Service Corporation of our report dated March 13, 2008, relating to our audits of the consolidated financial statements, and the financial statement schedule, which appear in this Annual Report on Form 10-K of The Providence Service Corporation for the year ended December 31, 2009. /s/ MCGLADREY & PULLEN, LLP Phoenix, Arizona March 12, 2010 CERTIFICATIONS Exhibit 31.1 I, Fletcher Jay McCusker, certify that: 1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of The Providence Service Corporation; 2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report; 3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report; 4. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have: a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared; b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles; c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and 5. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions): a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting. Date: March 12, 2010 /s/ FLETCHER J. MCCUSKER Fletcher J. McCusker Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) CERTIFICATIONS Exhibit 31.2 I, Michael N. Deitch, certify that: 1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of The Providence Service Corporation; 2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report; 3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report; 4. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have: a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared; b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles; c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and 5. The registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions): a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting. Date: March 12, 2010 /s/ MICHAEL N. DEITCH Michael N. Deitch Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) THE PROVIDENCE SERVICE CORPORATION CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350, AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002 Exhibit 32.1 Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Section 1350 of Chapter 63 of Title 18 of the United States Code), the undersigned officer of The Providence Service Corporation (the “Company”), does hereby certify with respect to the Annual Report of the Company on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009 (the “Report”) that: (1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and (2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company. Date: March 12, 2010 /s/ FLETCHER J. MCCUSKER Fletcher J. McCusker Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) The foregoing certification is being furnished solely pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Section 1350 of Chapter 63 of Title 18 of the United States Code) and is not being filed as part of the Report or as a separate disclosure document. THE PROVIDENCE SERVICE CORPORATION CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350, AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002 Exhibit 32.2 Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Section 1350 of Chapter 63 of Title 18 of the United States Code), the undersigned officer of The Providence Service Corporation (the “Company”), does hereby certify with respect to the Annual Report of the Company on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009 (the “Report”) that: (1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and (2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company. Date: March 12, 2010 /s/ MICHAEL N. DEITCH Michael N. Deitch Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) The foregoing certification is being furnished solely pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Section 1350 of Chapter 63 of Title 18 of the United States Code) and is not being filed as part of the Report or as a separate disclosure document. The Providence Service Corporation is dedicated to providing and managing government sponsored social and transportation management services within a highly fragmented industry. Benefiting from the growing trend for government privatization, Providence provides human services and non-emergency transportation (NET) management services directly to children, adolescents, young adults and families who are eligible for government assistance pursuant to federal mandate or legal status. Providence is different from many of its competitors in that it provides its social services in the client’s own home or in community based settings versus institutional care and provides its NET management services through local transportation providers rather than owning its own fleet of vehicles. This reduces the government’s costs for such services while providing high quality care to Providence’s clients. 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 2 % R : 3 G A 5 y r C 04 05 06 071 081 092 Client Growth in Thousands $250 200 150 100 50 0 04 05 06 07 08 09 Total Long Term Debt in Millions $1,000 3 % R : 5 G A 5 y r C 800 600 400 200 0 NET Services Social Services 04 05 06 07 08 09 Total Revenue in Millions $60 50 40 30 20 10 0 6 % R : 3 G A 5 y r C * 04 05 06 07 083 09 Operating Income in Millions 1 excludes over 6 million eligible NET clients 3 Operating loss of $149.3 million includes $169.9 million asset impairment charge 2 excludes over 7.7 million eligible NET clients 2009 Stock Performance Providence Service Corporation stock price return compared to The Russell 2000 and the NASDAQ Health Index, in percentages. PRSC Russell 2000 NASDAQ Health Index 1000% 800% 600% 400% 200% 0% -200% Jan 09 Feb 09 Mar 09 Apr 09 May 09 Jun 09 July 09 Aug 09 Sep 09 Oct 09 Nov 09 Dec 09 Corpora te In forma tion Board of Directors Terence J. Cryan 2, 3 President and Chief Executive Officer Medical Acoustics, LLC Hunter Hurst III 1, 2, 3 Retired Director National Center for Juvenile Justice Fletcher J. McCusker Chairman, Chief Executive Officer Company Headquarters The Providence Service Corporation Annual Meeting May 20, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. Lodge on the Desert 5524 East Fourth Street 306 North Alvernon Way Tucson, AZ 85711 Tucson, AZ 85711 Phone: 520-747-6600/800-747-6950 Fax: 520-747-6605 Web: www.provcorp.com Corporate Officers Fletcher J. McCusker Chairman, Chief Executive Officer Investor Relations The investing public, securities analysts and stockholders seeking information about the Company should visit the Investor Information section of our corporate website at www.provcorp.com, or contact Investor Relations at either the Company’s corporate headquarters or via e-mail at irinfo@provcorp.com. Common Stock The Company’s Common Stock is traded on The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC’s Global Select Market under the symbol “PRSC.” Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm KPMG LLP Legal Counsel Blank Rome LLP 405 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10174 Transfer Agent Computershare Investor Services, LLC P.O. Box 43078 Providence, RI 02940-3078 Phone: 404-588-3654/800-568-3476 The Providence Service Corporation Michael N. Deitch Chief Financial Officer Kristi L. Meints 1, 2, 3 Retired Chief Financial Officer Mary J. Shea Executive Vice President, Chicago Systems Group Program Services Craig A. Norris Chief Operating Officer Fred D. Furman Executive Vice President, General Counsel Herman Schwarz Chief Executive Officer, LogistiCare Leamon A. Crooms III Chief Strategy Officer Craig A. Norris Chief Operating Officer The Providence Service Corporation Warren S. Rustand (Lead Director) Managing Partner SC Capital Partners, LLC Richard Singleton 1, 2, 3 Retired Superintendent Boys School for the Dept. of Juvenile Justice, State of Florida 1 Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee 2 Audit Committee 3 Compensation Committee Safe Harbor This annual report contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as “believe,” “demonstrate,” “expect,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “should” and “likely” and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. In addition, statements that are not historical should also be considered forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on those forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date the statement was made. Such forward-looking statements are based on current expectations that involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause actual events to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to the global credit crisis, capital market conditions, and other risks detailed in Providence’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including this Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009. Providence is under no obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update any of the information in this document if any forward-looking statement later turns out to be inaccurate whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. m o c . s r o n n o c - n a r r u c . w w w / . c n I , s r o n n o C & n a r r u C y b n g i s e D t r o p e R l a u n n A P R OV I D E N C E S E R V I C E CO R P O R AT I O N 5 5 24 E A S T F O U R T H S T R E E T T U C S O N , A Z 8 5 711 P H O N E : 5 2 0 -747- 6 6 0 0 W E B: W W W. P R O V C O R P.C O M This is a Greener annual reporT. Providence Service Corporation is committed to reducing its impact on the environment. By producing our report this way, we lessened the impact on the environment in the following ways: 3,051 lbs. of wood were saved 4,455 gallons of water were saved 925 lbs. of emissions were sequestered 270 lbs. of solid waste were not generated 4,000,000 BTUs of energy not consumed P R OV I D E N C E S E R V I C E CO R P O R AT I O N 2 0 0 9 A N N UA L R E P O R T P R O V I D E N C E S E R V I C E C O R P O R A T I O N 2 0 0 9 A N N U A L R E P O R T Cert no. SCS-COC-000648 M O M E N T U M